The way I learned it was by reading the offical free django book. According to me, the tutorial app does not teach you lot of django. The first chapter 8 chapter of the book will give you a solid understanding. Hope that thelps.
On Friday, June 28, 2013 2:35:17 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am very new to the world of Django and I have a couple questions > regarding "how to learn it?": > > My background is .NET development, mostly developing business logic tiers. > I am very fluent with OOP, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and have an entry-level > knowledge of Python. Still, I have no knowledge of MVC (or MVT in this > case) nor Django, nor command-line in *nix systems. I am in need to build > quickly several web apps and due to the productivity gain in using Python > rather than C# / Java, I naturally took a look at Django. I would like to > thouroughly learn the framework and be able to bend it to my will as I > think I'm in here for the long haul (kinda fed up with the Microsoft stack > for development). > > I have a need to do things like provide a web-based interface where users > can find each other with criteria such as the geographical distance between > them, upload images and edit them online, provide natural language search > capabilities, etc... (just to highlight that I need to get to the level of > knowing more than building a basic polls app or a simple blog). > > As I understand, the entry point to learn Django is by completing the > tutorial. What then? What would you recommend? As I've seen, most of the > resources I can find online are outdated and target 1.4, would I still be > able to learn from those and not getting frustrated? Also, I'm working on > OS X and I have practically no knowledge of the command line. I glanced a > little at how to deploy a Django site to production and quickly got lost... > virtualenv, git, etc... No knowledge of that and looks a bit scary for a > guy used to deploy an app by copying the compiled build using FTP. > > So I'm asking you, experts... ...if you had to learn Django today, with no > prior knowledge of previous versions, what would be your learning path? > > Thank you for your time and looking forward to join what seems like a > really cool community! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
