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Re: Want to learn Django? Start here.

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Post by bduerst » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 9:48 PM UTC

nXqd wrote: post #5

wilfra wrote: post #4

I'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.

Can you guys recommend any AMIs that are ready to go with django?

Re: Want to learn Django? Start here.

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Post by jononomo » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 5:41 PM UTC

nnq wrote: post #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...

This is exactly why I'm going with Django for my project. The Django book that is online is just so straightforward and easy to understand. With Rails I have not found that to be the case at all.

Re: Want to learn Django? Start here.

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Post by nnq » Wed, Sep 26, 2012, 7:27 AM UTC

jononomo wrote: post #22

nnq wrote: post #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...

This is exactly why I'm going with Django for my project. The Django book that is online is just so straightforward and easy to understand. With Rails I have not found that to be the case at all.

Have you found anything truly "enlightening" in the Django Book (like actually helping you to make a mental model of something or teaching you a better way to do things) that would make it worth checking out after initially "skipping" it?

(I actually went from the tutorial to specific parts of the docs and then to actually digging through the code of some os projects like django-cms, bypassing the Django Book altogether and learning things by reading the docs while actually doing client work ...after "lying" that I actually knew more about Django than I did ...but it all worked out magically alright, ahead of time and in the budget :) ...and this is what really made me feel good about D and made me eager to digg deeper and maybe even contribute to it sometime)