I second this. I worked through the tutorial - it's a great intro. -Brett
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Jason Champion <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I'd recommend their basic poll tutorial for a start: > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/ > > The Django book is a good intro: > > http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/index.html > > Once you have a good understanding of the basics, the Two Scoops of Django > book is mighty good: > > http://www.amazon.com/Two-Scoops-Django-Best-Practices- > ebook/dp/B00CCK619K/ > > It doesn't matter that it's a version behind, the core concepts don't > generally change quickly with Django. > > For deployments, Fabric is very much worth learning, and not too hard to > get the hang of: > > http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.8/ > > I love Linode. Their servers perform very well with Django (I have ~20 > sites running on one of their $40 Ubuntu servers and it's /fast/). :D > > Cheers, > Jason > > > On 12/23/2013 03:50 PM, Scott Garman wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> I'm planning to spend some time during the holidays to write my first >> django webapp, and was wondering what recommendations people have for >> books and online resources to get me bootstrapped and using the latest >> best practices? I have some background in Rails, though that's gotten >> quite rusty in recent years, and I consider myself intermediate-level >> with python itself. Practical resources which include things like how to >> deploy a django app are especially welcome - I have a Linode server >> running Debian 7 as my target webhost. >> >> Suggestions? >> >> Thanks, and Happy Holidays! >> >> Scott >> _______________________________________________ >> Portland mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland >> > > _______________________________________________ > Portland mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20131223/bfa40d4e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
