I think it could be useful to document that you can use Django with such a minimal setup. My preference wouldn't be to put it in the tutorial but maybe it has a place in docs/topics/overview.txt or similar.
On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 8:07:38 PM UTC-5, Curtis Maloney wrote: > > When we were teaching MelbDjango, I did start by writing views in the > root urls.py .... this avoided students having to create a bunch of > files and apps and references and imports and... > > For some of the students transitioning from PHP, it was much easier to > deal with only learning one thing at a time... > > However, we didn't go quite so far as that example... still using > "startproject" etc. > > -- > Curtis > > On 02/03/16 12:03, Bobby Mozumder wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here’s an example of minimal Django, where one can output run an full > site from a single file: > > https://github.com/rnevius/minimal-django > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frnevius%2Fminimal-django&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGNzB7oUpdoLlVWSGWn_hBnjHZVGA> > > > > > The author made the comparison to Flask. > > > > I believe the tutorial should start out with this, as the initial Part > 0, to introduce the audience to the framework, before introducing > apps/models/subdirectories/etc. I think a lot of people are turned off by > the heavy-handed immediate introduction of many files and directories of a > Django setup - I know I was when I first started with Django. > > > > Anyways just putting this out there. > > > > -bobby > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/ec24375e-f673-4c12-81da-2fca533650ba%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
