I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks

Re:I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first ... by limedaring on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @03:09PM (#2228035)

I took classes in Computer Science (in Java) back in college but detested programming and switched to Art & Design, so programming logic wasn't an entirely new concept to me. I also worked for 4.5 years at a startup doing Java, no programming, but had to read a lot of code so it kept me at least in the loop. Right when I started with Django and this project, I did Learn Python the Hard Way, which brought me completely up to speed about logic and all that.

Otherwise, I don't even do Javascript (it's a major weakpoint), and much prefer "visual" duties like HTML/CSS/design.

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Re:I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first ... by sgallant on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @04:01PM (#2228272)

I'm a designer (psd/html/css) going through Python the Hard Way right now, and I'm loving it. What was your main resource for learning Django?

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Re:I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first ... by limedaring on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @04:43PM (#2228448)

Lots of random tutorials on the internet beyond what was mentioned in my blog post. One thing I forgot to mention is that there wasn't one resource that did everything for me — @kennethlove's tutorial got me about 30% of the way, then it was googling for everything else I needed and learning from StackOverflow/my awesome friends/etc. No Django application really did everything for me as well — every one I installed I had to override in some way to make it fit to my product.

So there wasn't "one" resource — it was a lot of scrappy Googling and asking for help for every problem that got in my way.

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Re:I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first ... by joh6nn on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @03:28PM (#2228115)

even with some prior exposure, that's a steep learning curve. putting the whole thing together by yourself in just 6 weeks is still pretty impressive. major kudos.

also, the site looks great. good luck with it!

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Re:I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first ... by fedd on Thursday February 17, 2011 @03:15AM (#2230268)

hi, had you an experience with relational databases before? did you have any difficultirs with the DB part of your beautiful site, or Django makes everything easy?

i am thinking that relational databases used today may be a problem sometimes..

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Re:I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first ... by limedaring on Thursday February 17, 2011 @05:37PM (#2233212)

I am completely clueless about databases. @shazow told me which kind to use when working on WIL locally (Django does make it easy, plus I have the add-on "South" which apparently does a lot of work for you as well), and DotCloud took care of my database problems when I launched.

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Re:I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first ... by fedd on Friday February 18, 2011 @02:36AM (#2234640)

thanks!

i am collecting stories about problems with altering schemas while prototyping and while in production (losing data, manual altering tables, relational dbs restrictions, many-to-many relationships and other complexities) but it seems it all went smoothly with the tools you had.

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