On 11 Oct 2009, at 16:09, Alex Gaynor wrote: > I don't want to be overly negative, but in my view rewriting the > tutorial would be a pointless waste of energy. It has served us > exceptionally well over the past 4 years, and none of the problems > with it are fundamental, we'd be far better served by working to > improve it, by adding more stages, than by rewriting it. Further, I'd > ague that the "staleness" of the tutorial is irrelevant, because the > primary audience for the tutorial are precisely people who haven't > seen it before. > > Alex
I think I have to agree with Alex here. I’ve taught Django to a couple of people in the past, and I found that the tutorial (as it is) worked perfectly as an introduction to the concepts behind Django. After the tutorial, the Django Book[1] is the next natural step, and it provides a very solid grounding in pretty much everything, from development to deployment. To round it all off, Eric Florenzano’s ‘Django from the Ground Up’ showed them how to put what they had learned into practice. If there’s one thing *at all* that we should do, it’s add a chapter on testing to the Django Book, and perhaps another section in the tutorial devoted to it. But a comprehensive rewrite of the tutorial seems completely unnecessary. -- Zack [1]: http://djangobook.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
