Hi Ron, To understand more clearly how Django works and what it can do for you, I would strongly urge to you go through the tutorial here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/ Depending on your current Python level and familiarity with web programming in general, it will take you 3-6 hours to complete, but the tutorial will show you everything you need to know (at a high level) about Django and how it may (or may not) solve your problem. Flask is another Python web programming framework that many Python programmers find useful. It is lighter-weight than Django, but if you already know Python, it would be interesting for you to also do a Flask tutorial as well just for comparison. Getting some hands-on experience will be much more useful than anything I could ever tell you about "what Django does and how it works." Good luck, Alan On Sunday, July 7, 2013 1:03:45 AM UTC-4, ron wrote: > > I need help with getting the big picture in so far as what Django can help > me accomplish. I need to replace an antiquated online attendance-taking > system. My first thought was to just build from scratch using Apache, > Python, MySQL, HTML/JavaScript. My first stop was researching how to > integrate Python and Apache, but that led me down the rabbit hole of > programming. I kept running across using "Frameworks". From my reading so > far, I can't determine if Django, as a framework, will yeild any advantage > over just implementing the standalone bits and pieces. > > I'm putting out the word, here on the kist, for direction in this matter. > My mail confusion is, does Django ome with its own database, and is this > the same type database that I'm referring to to when I mentioned doing this > task using the autonomous pieces? > > Thanks. > -- 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.
