Re:Ask HN: How do I learn Django?
by snoozypants on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:16AM
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I've got a couple of students online and the one pattern I've found is, have a project in mind you'd like to build. It keeps that inspiration for longer vs. just going through tutorials and pushes you a bit more to learn specific things, "Okay, how do I process a CSV file now". You SHOULD still go through a good tutorial or two to get overview of different concepts and components in the frameworks (the tutorials others have mentioned are solid).
One problem with learning while building (or learning by yourself in general) is bad practices. "Two Scoops of Django" is still a good one, though a bit old, but again it will teach some overarching concepts and approaches. And then getting feedback from others!
Apart from Django, Openclassrooms is the site where most French Programmers learned to do so, and it's an incredible ressource. It teaches you all the subjects from the ground-up assuming you have almost no knowledge.
1. The Django Girls tutorial (multi-language): https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/
2. Will Vincent's books (also recommend his blog): https://wsvincent.com/best-django-books/
3. Tango with Django: https://www.tangowithdjango.com/
Also, here's a somewhat more comprehensive list of Django learning resources: https://www.fullstackpython.com/django.html
One problem with learning while building (or learning by yourself in general) is bad practices. "Two Scoops of Django" is still a good one, though a bit old, but again it will teach some overarching concepts and approaches. And then getting feedback from others!
Apart from Django, Openclassrooms is the site where most French Programmers learned to do so, and it's an incredible ressource. It teaches you all the subjects from the ground-up assuming you have almost no knowledge.
After that I'd recommend just building something. Tutorials are great but I've always learned the most when I've just tried to build a real project.
After that, maybe the book Two Scoops of Django?
If I remember, they mentioned the book or spoke about the writer quite recently and said a lot of the principles still apply.
I've found they still greatly helped my projects.
Things quite might change as async becomes a bit more popular with the framework