I'd avoid a more complex tool like Eclipse when starting out - and try using a simple text editor like Atom or Sublime Text; that way you get a much more "hands on" understanding of Django.
(Also - maybe don't MySQL when starting out & just stick to SQLite - its fine for learning purposes) On Sunday, 23 April 2017 20:56:27 UTC+2, Pubudu Goonetilleke wrote: > > Hi, > I am very new to web programming and trying to learn ABCs of this whole > new thing. I am following some online tutorials and facing some few things > that I am trying to understand. > first, when I create dJango (1.11) project in eclipse (Neon 3) in pyDev > (latest), I set data base information as follows : > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pi5AEaqc8CM/WPzmCoCAAxI/AAAAAAAA29g/C02KJL6-6v4PMIT0spFs0b_FPdkNX9E2wCLcB/s1600/dJango%2Bproject%2B-%2Bdatabase.png> > > > new my issue is that when I open the *settings.py *it does not show the > setting as I expect. > it is like follows : > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ldCtNzqUTO8/WPzmchFcakI/AAAAAAAA29k/TqvgbtnDUGMAiiPwgWdzW0-1C9Crh9ucgCLcB/s1600/DATABASES%2B-%2Bcode.png> > > > > what I expect as per the tutorials is as follows : (I manually typed it) > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xU7jLtJ-2sI/WPzmlYW9oOI/AAAAAAAA29o/-RvGT7FbD_ob_3sZirt7yCKrIaZfDAq9gCLcB/s1600/DATABASES%2B-%2Bcode%2Bsecond.png> > > > I know I could type this into the *setting.py, *but trying to understand > why does it not create that automatically during setup since that > information is already entered in the dialog. > > Thank you for the help in advance. > > > Thanks, > > Pubudu > > > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/8c4b766a-b885-4b2a-b9f0-da8224c87ddd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

