Re:How to Tango with Django: A Python Django Tutorial
by acjohnson55 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @08:30AM
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If I might make a suggestion, I think a lot of these problems would have been solved by reading the Django project docs before Two Scoops. Unlike many open source projects, Django's docs are of extremely high quality. Their main shortcoming is that while they tell you a great deal about what Django's pieces are and how they work, it leaves out a lot of practical usage stuff. That's where Two Scoops picks up. To me it's less of a book for a pure beginner and more so intended for turning someone who knows the basics into someone who can deploy a real site into production.
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Re:How to Tango with Django: A Python Django Tutorial
by rmrfrmrf on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @02:51PM
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That's a fair point. I went through the tutorial and totally overlooked the rest of the docs (with the exception of the ones that I needed). Even still, I think Two Scoops could be a lot more concise and spend less time focusing on why and more time focusing on how. Best practices are means to an end; if someone's reading a book about them, chances are that they're aware of the benefits of following best practices anyway and don't need the constant reminder of why portable, readable code is important.