Re: Road Map for a newbie

On 17/08/2023 7:24 pm, Tesfaye Yimam wrote:

Hello all,

This is my second day of learning Django. I am comfortable with python (the basics and the OOP).
I wanted to have some guidance from this community to learn Djanog by taking small steps in a consistent way.
Any one who has a road-map, especially if you tried it and worked for you,  that will greatly help me in the learning process of Django. So, please drop me a message here.
I'm happy to be here.

Welcome!

There would be no better way to start than working through the tutorial in the docs, step by step ...

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/

Afterwards, you should decide/specify your own project and when the spec is more or less settled you should set it up as a fresh project and make it happen.

The critical part of learning Django is the specification of what you want. Personally, I keep the (excellent) docs permanently open in my browser so I can research how to achieve what I want to happen.

You will discover that Django takes a couple of different paths and you need to choose. Both are valid but I chose functional views rather than class-based views.

My reasons were that functional views seem simpler and allowed me absolute flexibility. I felt that class-based views while brilliant were more difficult for me. YMMV.

Also, Django now allows async programming. That's a bit too advanced for me - at least until it becomes necessary.

Good luck

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