Friday, March 2, 2012

Re: best resources for learning django

First of all, welcome to Django!

If you're not familiar with python (and specially managing python packages), I recommend you setup a sane development environment. Namely using virtualenv and pip, and optionally mkvirtualenv (if you're not on windows).

Having to figure out import errors is usually very a frustrating obstacle, especially for newbies.





Cheers,
AT


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:23 PM, gowtham <ragowthaman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if it is the best one (would like to here from Pros on this). But
> following really helped me to get started. I  finishing this tutorial in 2
> days and the next two days, i started and had a working application (simple
> though) for my project......
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial01/


even if you find any other 'better' source, the tutorials are a
necessary prerequisite.  there are lots of times where a newcomer asks
something in the list and even if the answer might not be in the
tutorials themselves, not doing them leads to a big obstacle to
communication.

for me, the best order is:

- the tutorials (all of them, even if they're not related to your needs)
- ask a little in the list.
- read other sections in the documentation.
- read the Django Book.  even if it's a little dated, the concepts stay valid.
- ask a little more on the list
- read the whole docs.
- start answering on the list!  yes, that helps learning too

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