I wholeheartedly agree. When I was new to Django, I had a very difficult time moving forward where the four "official" tutorials left off. I've always admired people that could learn a system by sitting down with the docs or pouring through the source - unfortuantely, I'm not one of them. Seeing code in the context of an app or project helps me more that doc pages. (No discredit to the fantastic Django documentation, it's some of the best I've ever seen) Having the Django Book available as of late has also been an incredible help.
Most of my early learing time was spent reverse engineering other people's apps and trying to assimilate disparate pieces of information into something workable. (Especially for concepts like user registration and commenting which the documentation was sparse on) Finding Jeff Croft's Lost Theories code was like discovering the Rosetta Stone; I had a live, working site online with accompanying source code. I'd like to see a place where code samples are provided in a consistent format, perhaps in the manner of O'Reilly's 'Cookbook' series. (Problem, Solution, Discussion, See Also, etc.) Being able to search this information, or drill down through specific Django concepts (i.e. pagination, caching, generic views) with usage examples would be helpful. The Symfony project has a nice "24 days with Askeet" section (http://www.symfony-project.com/askeet) that does a great job of walking a new user through an entire application. I'd be curious to see what other people thought, but I think the YUI-EXT commenting system could be used on cookbook 'recipe' pages. This would give newbies the ability to ask "Why did you do this specific code block this way..." and would really help out people that get lost in the tutorials (I've been there). This would also give experienced people the ability to suggest alternative ways to phrase code or suggest improvements. I thought about trying it out, but I haven't been able to figure out the Yahoo libraries yet. I'm not a prolific blogger but I'd like to find ways to contribute to the community - definitely +1 on the effort. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
