This list gets a lot of new people joining. They come from all cultures
and degrees of general competence. And list members have always made
them welcome and try to help as much as possible.
I would say to beginners - without thinking too hard - that the best
place to begin is the excellent Django documentation. Read "Getting
started" https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/intro/ followed by "What
to read next" https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/intro/whatsnext/
However, there are many non-native-english speakers who find reading any
documentation just one extra hurdle instead of an open gate. When I see
such a request for help in getting started I admire the courage displayed.
Maybe we need more than a standardised docs approach. Perhaps a wiki
would help to display stable advice for different groups of beginners.
There have been some particularly illuminating threads in this list
revealing the merits of different beginner approaches. The Django blog
might be a permanent location for such threads. Maybe there already is a
spot for accumulated beginner wisdom?
There are lots of other resources and recent beginners are probably the
most competent to advise.
I really don't know because I don't have much of a problem reading docs.
And it is a while since I was a beginner.
Just thinking about this, the tutorial project might be valuable as a
real project frozen at a seriously simple level so that beginners can
browse the source and read the docstrings and comments. A comment in
code might also carry a link to the documentation. Beginners who have
trouble with documentation should still be able to figure out the actual
code.
Mike
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