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Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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raintrees wrote: post #190
__strisk wrote: post #84

I remember liking http://www.tangowithdjango.com/ . It goes over building a link aggregating service using Django. However, I also remember it being free. Doesn't seem to be an option with the most recent release.

I enjoyed Tango with Django, and was very positively surprised when they emailed me an update for the PDF I bought. The first was inexpensive, and worth it, hopefully helping support the authors. Not only a good tutorial for Django, but the authors made it even better offering the free improved/corrected version. The final project is a Django webapp that allows visitors to add sites and rank them. Many different aspe…

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Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by raintrees »

raintrees wrote: post #190
__strisk wrote: post #84

I remember liking http://www.tangowithdjango.com/ . It goes over building a link aggregating service using Django. However, I also remember it being free. Doesn't seem to be an option with the most recent release.

I enjoyed Tango with Django, and was very positively surprised when they emailed me an update for the PDF I bought. The first was inexpensive, and worth it, hopefully helping support the authors. Not only a good tutorial for Django, but the authors made it even better offering the free improved/corrected version. The final project is a Django webapp that allows visitors to add sites and rank them. Many different aspe…

And I used some of the techniques from Tango in a car database app I sold to a local repair shop, so I definitely consider it money _well_ spent. I am now working on another app for yet another local business, leveraging some of the same tricks...

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by jambonrose »

sngz wrote: post #120
rickr wrote: post #14

Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial ( https://www.railstutorial.org/ ) is a great example of this. It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit of CSS/HTML, and even goes into AJAX a bit. I can't recommend it enough to people looking to get into rails.

is there something similar to this but for python based frameworks, or javascript based? Seems like every great tutorial / books that I find are using ruby

Django Unleashed is written as a step-by-step guide to building a single Django project. The link below has links to Amazon or to Pearson's own site (DRM-Free!).

http://django-unleashed.com/

Full Disclosure: I'm the author.

If you're looking to go nuts, I recommend reading the first twelve chapters of Django Unleashed, following it up with Harry Percival's Test Driven Development with Python book (also written as a step-by-step guide), and then finishing Unleashed.

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/index.ht...

Two Scoops of Django (not a guide) is great to have after that.

https://www.twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django...

Hope that helps!

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by farresito »

corysama wrote: post #182
farresito wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the books he has written: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~shirley/books/index.html

I think these are the short books herbstein was referring to: http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/

Oh, you are right, thank you. Makes sense. The books I checked from him had around 800 pages, which is anything but short :)

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by gingerbread-man »

r_singh wrote: post #25

Eloquent Javascript - http://eloquentjavascript.net/ You build 5 projects through the book - a programming language, paint program, a dom game and a skill sharing website using node js.

For anyone who hasn't read this book, it's great, but very much an intro-to-programming book, at least for the first 6-or-so chapters.

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by Corvus »

One of the most memorable experiences of my life was building a small 2D RPG named Dungeon Of Despair from the book "Game Scripting Mastery" https://books.google.ca/books/about/Game_Scripting_Mastery.h... by Alex Varanese.

The game teaches you to build a simple game for Win32 from scratch. The graphics would be pretty dated now, but the scripting system for enemy AI and quests is a Turing-complete programming language. I learned more from that book than from my compiler course in university.

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by sumedh »

shrikrishna wrote: post #186
sumedh wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it possible to read the first chapter for free so that I can decide if I want to buy the book or not. There almost no reviews of your book.

Yes. You can download a sample chapter from the aforementioned link

Thanks, I didnt see that button on the site.
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