Re: Why so complicated :O??

Hi Vesko,

I might take a look at Harry Perceval's Test Driven Development with Python, which is available for free.

Although the book focuses on teaching TDD, it teaches Django along the way and does so by focusing on getting the smallest piece working at a time. 

As a consequence of teaching TDD, it first walks you through writing a little bit with the selenium and unittest modules.

You might feel like this gets in the way, but I suspect you'll actually find it helpful. It gets to the actual django here.

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Carl, I have increasingly come to suspect the same thing you assert:

Getting the user to understand how the request->urlroute->view->response flow works should come before getting them to understand the models.

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Carl Meyer <carl@oddbird.net> wrote:

Hi Vesko,

On 05/06/2015 12:47 PM, Vesko Nikolov wrote:
> Hello everyone. So i have been trying to learn Django for the last
> couple of months but have been seeing it quite hard. I have a decent set
> of skills in PHP but i wanted to learn something newer and that is what
> brought me here. So on with the question. Where can i get a BASIC
> tutorial of how django works and how to perform simple tasks. All the
> tutorials I find are DATABASES MODELS TEMPLATING. I don't care about any
> of that sh*t (at least not at this stage). I want to make django
> calculate some math for me or some equally simple tasks so i can get an
> idea how basics work before i interact with databases and make really
> dynamic projects.

Sure, that's reasonable. I would actually prefer it if the official
Django tutorial tackled things in the order you suggest, covering simple
views and HTTP request/response handling before covering models, the
admin, etc.

I think you'll find the starting point you're looking for in part 3 of
the official tutorial, at
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/intro/tutorial03/#write-your-first-view

You'll still need to follow part 1 to get your project and app created,
but you can skip over the database and models stuff and come back to
that later, if you want.

Good luck!

Carl

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