Want to learn Django? Start here.
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#2Awesome! Thanks for the post. Sometimes I feel that RoR gets too much publicity vs django or other MVCs.
Of course having used Django for ~5 years now, I must be biased!
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#3Thanks for this, just looking at Django for the first time right now so the timing is perfect.
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#4I'm learning Django (and Python) now, a big +1 for the official tutorial being the best first place to start. It walks you through setting up your environment, working with the terminal and a cool little project setting up your first app that quickly and clearly shows you all sorts of cool things Django can do.
I took me about 10 hours from start to finish with probably half of that devoted to getting my environment setup. I learned a ton and not just about Django.
If you have experience with Python and/or working with the terminal it should be much faster, but you'll still probably learn a lot.
#django IRC channel is another resource I'd highly recommend, especially when you get stuck. Those guys are super, super helpful.
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#5I'm learning Django (and Python) now, a big +1 for the official tutorial being the best first place to start. It walks you through setting up your environment, working with the terminal and a cool little project setting up your first app that quickly and clearly shows you all sorts of cool things Django can do. I took me about 10 hours from start to finish with probably half of that devoted to getting my environment…
+1 for the time to set up working environment. It mostly costs me half of the time I do something new.
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#6I'd love to see the Django equivalent to Railscasts.
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#7...is it just me, or Django docs are WAY more to the point than all the rails screencasts and tutorials? I wonder if this extends to the whole Django vs Rails way of doing things in general, not just to documentation...
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#8+1 for the django.me tip. I can see myself using it all the time from now on :-) Out of curiosity, how and where did you find out about it? http://django.me redirects to the main page of django docs and google search didn't give any useful info.
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#9Django by Example is one of the best resources: http://lightbird.net/dbe/.
It's getting a little out of date, what with Django 1.4 and django-registration 0.8, but nothing that can't be upgraded without too much hassle.
#django on Freenode is also invaluable.
You can also search inside the Django documentation with "!django", if DDG is your default search engine.
I also recommend checking out dotCloud (YC) instead of Heroku, as it's much easier to set up for beginners. Just download the wsgi.py and make the necessary changes to your settings.py, and Bob's your uncle.
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#10+1 for the django.me tip. I can see myself using it all the time from now on :-) Out of curiosity, how and where did you find out about it? http://django.me redirects to the main page of django docs and google search didn't give any useful info.
I think it's powered by http://slug.in/ which was a recent djangodash project.