Kevin,
Looking forward to what you come up with. I'd be willing to be a guinea pig for the course.
First, I am a hobbyist developer (Java, Groovy/Grails, JS/Jquery/HTML5, PL/SQL, Python/Django), not a pro, and relatively new at it. My day job is a Software QA Manager for 40,000+ employee ERP Web App.
Just for the fun of it I've been exploring Django. I've been through all the usual places on the web (djangoproject, djangobook, and others, and all the youtube tutorials) and I'm currently redeveloping 2 apps in django that I originally wrote in other languages/frameworks -- just as an exercise to see how django handles them.
Second, My 2 cents on your outline and my request for content: I know with its newsy roots django excels in the blog/wiki/social posting space so there is a bit of glut in the django tutorial world for these types of examples, but I'm coming from a business web perspective and I don't find much out there on incorporating user number input (financial or other quantity) type data from forms which is then processed through some business logic in the view and redisplayed for validation by the user before being comitted to the database for storage.
Apart from those 2 cents, your outline looks good. And I think JQuery is almost as much a part of the finished product as HTML these days. I think many will benefit from learning how to incorporate that library.
Regards,
Sean
On Monday, May 27, 2013 3:02:58 PM UTC-7, Kevin wrote:
Hello everyone!--
It's been quite sometime since I have been on here, well I came back with some great news! I am currently in the process of building an online Django web course aimed at both new and old Django developers. I will be charging a minimal fee for access to the entire course, but the first 3 chapters of the main sections will be free for everyone to read and enjoy. The course software itself is built using Django naturally.
The course software has been completed and uploaded online. I am now in the lengthily process of writing up all the chapters, quizzes, example code, and full projects. This is going to be a large amount of work, however at the current moment this is my only job and that is why I am planning on charging for admittance. I am aiming to have a large amount of it completed by around the middle of June and ready for public consumption shortly after.
I have decided to give a lucky few free access to the entire course for the purpose of reviewing and providing me with feedback. If you are interested, please reply back to me and explain why I should select you. I will then select 5 lucky individuals and email them their access credentials and a link to the actual course's website when it's ready.
Here's a little background information about myself, since I haven't been on here recently. I am the current maintainer and author of PythonDiary.com, which has been a relatively successful Python blog since January of 2012. Over 500 users visit the blog each day, and if a new article is available this amount can increase to over 1,000 hits. Many of my articles and tutorials are related to Django, and most of my user base uses Django or wants to learn it. I have received many requests from users to expand on my Django tutorials, however I lack the personal time required to write these articles. To that affect, I have ultimately decided to create an entire Django web-based course for a very low cost. The cost is much cheaper than a typical Django book available today and will touch on more advanced concepts and also explain how to integrate and use popular 3rd party Django apps. After reading many Django books, I always see them missing on some key concepts or don't explain how to use particular 3rd party apps. I have been building Django powered websites since around 2010 and have a large amount of experience with the framework that I can share with others.
Best Regards,
Kevin Veroneau
PythonDiary.com
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