I also prefer text over video. However, Corey Schafer has an excellent video series that is really well done. He doesn’t waste time babbling or stumbling over words. He also provides a link to his github repo so you can let ok over the code.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 8:19 PM 'Nicholas Hatch' via Django users < [email protected]> wrote: > If you are looking for books, any of the O’Reilly books are good. A > worthwhile investment is an O’Reilly online subscription, which gives you > access to all their books plus video tutorials, so you get the best of both > worlds. > > For the price of three or four of their technical books, you get their > full library, and if you really get into this, you’ll need to dive into > many other topics anyway. > > > > Nicholas Hatch > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 1:03 PM, Gerardo Palazuelos Guerrero < > [email protected]> wrote: > > hi, > Django has been a different beast for me, an .NET programmer... > You need to find your way... > > Following are my go-to resources, always: > #1: (free) Djangogirls tutorial > #2: (paid) the books by https://wsvincent.com/books/ -- specially that > book (green one) is an excellent resource for beginners > #3: (free to read online) Harry Percival's > https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ > > Note: > I'm not affiliated or anything with those sites... it's just that those > materials are helpful for me and I keep mentioning those to folks > > -- > Gerardo Palazuelos Guerrero > > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 7:25 AM Mario R. Osorio <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I must agree that video tutorials are harder to follow, specially if and >> when they are if at least a bit outdated. I used to hate them however; I've >> learned to appreciate them specially because of one reason: *YOU CANNOT >> COPY AND PASTE.* >> >> Written tutorials don't help you go thru the full learning process and >> make you a master of [Ctrl]-[C] & [Ctrl]-[V] since you're not even checking >> the code nor make sense out of it, let alone memorizing it. >> >> Back in the day, when written tutorials were handed to you on paper, >> probably as photocopy of some else's photocopy (bis), you would learn by >> typing the code yourself. It is online tutorials that I find not as helpful >> anymore. >> >> Now, don't get me wrong, I have found lost of excellent online tutorials. >> The problem is that it is all too easy to copy and paste. >> >> IMHO (and at least in programming) written tutorials are for the very >> first baby steps but once you've outpaced those; you need to move away from >> them, even if we are talking about learning a new programming language, >> tool, framework or paradigm. >> >> >> >> On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 7:59:07 AM UTC-4, ajoeiam wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 6:33 AM selim atmaca <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > You should learn python basics first but dont dive deep, just the >>> basics. Then >>> > There is a nice django video series on youtube. Search for corey >>> schafer django. There are 17 videos in that series. If I was starting >>> django today, definetly I would start it with that video series. >>> > >>> Hopefully this isn't a thread hijacking - - - - but - - - - - >>> I am finding that online videos are hugely wasteful of time and would >>> rather have a text equivalent. >>> Is there such for this recommended video series? >>> >>> Regards >>> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/65360234-aaa6-4365-9e8e-fc6d8a3bc5f2%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/65360234-aaa6-4365-9e8e-fc6d8a3bc5f2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAJ8iCyO7XsMj0JPd8Rj8-PXghPOaxoPnjNELr6e8J73wgvLCpA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAJ8iCyO7XsMj0JPd8Rj8-PXghPOaxoPnjNELr6e8J73wgvLCpA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/P4PC8nOmfEd1JqWoqYlzVXO9qMS5Pne1LA1-wTlKy2cwoSlhD8wB28FIFg_bMwUkGVE249jJTynj_PBTqsxWaSudRTlG3FlDth8j-JCnfqE%3D%40thehatchcloud.org > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/P4PC8nOmfEd1JqWoqYlzVXO9qMS5Pne1LA1-wTlKy2cwoSlhD8wB28FIFg_bMwUkGVE249jJTynj_PBTqsxWaSudRTlG3FlDth8j-JCnfqE%3D%40thehatchcloud.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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