Django Newbie Mistakes

Re:Django Newbie Mistakes by paulie_a on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:52AM (#17417296)

I agree. The tutorial is incredibly simplistic with a "go play" ending. Then the actual documentation assumes you have a pretty good knowledge of how everything works. There is no middle step without utilizing 3rd party docs.

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Re:Django Newbie Mistakes by mixmastamyk on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:53PM (#17421126)

There are also lengthy guides on each part ORM, Templates, etc.

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Re:Django Newbie Mistakes by paulie_a on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:29PM (#17421760)

The problem is they quite frankly suck.

The official ones are incredibly dry and not approachable by someone wanting to get started and do anything meaningful. I've helped people learn Django and the official docs/guides are the last on the list of recommendations. there are so many better resources to look at first. I've told people to skip the polls app and go through Django girls tutorial. The polls app is a waste of time.

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Re:Django Newbie Mistakes by kraptor on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:23AM (#17423406)

May be the django book might be the approach you are looking for...

https://djangobook.com/the-django-book/

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