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I'm looking for a good Django tutorial that includes examples of developing with BDD and TDD. The way I learned Rails included RSpec and Cucumber, and that made a huge difference.
Try http://www.tdd-django-tutorial.com/
why is that HN crowd is so much into Django? Every day I see something Django-related on the top page. I feel like I'm left out... is Django like the world's number one web framework (for hackers)?
As someone who has been learning Django/Python for 4 months, I very much appreciate both the getting started with Django site and the book 2 Scoops of Django that just came out. Would have saved me weeks of time if I had access to these 4 months ago. It's coincidence that they came out within a few days of each other (and a few days after Django 1.5 release candidate came out).
There's even greater interest in Ruby on Rails, the leading web development framework for Ruby.
chef, vagrant, ubuntu, apt-get, pip, virtualenv, heroku, ssh.. oh there it is, sth about learning django. I'm saying it not to diss your work, but don't you think setting up a linux env on a vm and signing up to heroku shouldn't be the point of a django tutorial? point explained in another discussion about zed's approach to writing 'learn x the hard way' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4961593
"3. Make it work for Windows, OSX, and Linux if you can." This is the reason the VM was introduced. So that no matter what OS the user is running, they can follow along without having to go search for ways to get all this setup and running. The setup is very minimal thanks to Chef and Vagrant. Kenneth is trying to teach best practices and tools to use. He also explained in the beginning of the video that you should b…
Coming from rails, its weird to me that he seems to emphasize their 'gem install' equivalent over their bundler equivalent.
Otherwise, a great tutorial.
why is that HN crowd is so much into Django? Every day I see something Django-related on the top page. I feel like I'm left out... is Django like the world's number one web framework (for hackers)?
I'm very glad that you created this video series. It's going to be incredibly helpful for many developers. Keep up the good work!
This seems to be the perfect video to get setup before reading your book, which is very light on the "proper setup". I imagine that a book might not be the best format for that, or simply that this is not the content your main audience expect to start with.
why is that HN crowd is so much into Django? Every day I see something Django-related on the top page. I feel like I'm left out... is Django like the world's number one web framework (for hackers)?
Pinterest, Disqus, Instagram, PBS site, Washington Post site, etc. etc. are all Django projects. It's definitely worth learning -- the community is helpful and in large numbers, the framework is quite 'complete' -- there are lots of plugins available, it's fairly secure... and it's a pleasure to work with. :)
Is there a way to save HN stories, aside from commenting on them? I don't want to leave a pointless comment just so I can find it later (I didn't want to leave this one.).
Is there a way to save HN stories, aside from commenting on them? I don't want to leave a pointless comment just so I can find it later (I didn't want to leave this one.).