On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Junior Tidal jti...@citytech.cuny.edu wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I haven't actively looked for resources
since I'm busy doing collection development. However, I came across an
advertisement for a Django book and figured it would be a useful
Congratulations on discovering python. It will serve you much better
than php, or any other scripting language.
Skipping to the punch-line, you should dive into python before you
dive in django:
http://diveintopython.org/
You will have a very much more easy time if you learn how to debug a
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Elliot Hallmark permafact...@gmail.com wrote:
However, I switched to this other scripting
language, python, because it could do things php cant.
Not to start a flame, but that's a rather big statement which I think
A) needs backing up, and B) is probably untrue.
For instance,
my first project in python involved capturing keyboard input before
windows heard about it. Then I kept discovering amazing things python
can do that php cant.
For instance, PHP can do this fine. Was there something in particular
you're thinking of that PHP can't do?
Yes,
Hello Code4Lib,
Does anyone have any recommendations for learning Django? Books, websites,
video tutorials, etc. ...
thanks,
Junior Tidal
Assistant Professor
Web Services and Multimedia Librarian
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718.260.5481
There's the Django Book: http://www.djangobook.com/ (Make sure you choose the
revised edition for 1.0)
The Django docs, with some intro tutorials:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/
Did you try those already?
On 2010-10-25, at 10:19 AM, Junior Tidal wrote:
Hello Code4Lib,
Does anyone
I'd start here:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/
There are some tutorials in there as well.
-Mike
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:19, Junior Tidal jti...@citytech.cuny.edu wrote:
Hello Code4Lib,
Does anyone have any recommendations for learning Django? Books, websites,
video
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Junior Tidal jti...@citytech.cuny.edu wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations for learning Django? Books, websites,
video tutorials, etc. ...
For resources, learn django in Google shows a bunch of promising hints.
Methodology-wise: Start with a fairly
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I haven't actively looked for resources
since I'm busy doing collection development. However, I came across an
advertisement for a Django book and figured it would be a useful language to
learn. I already know php, so it seems logical that django is the next
Agreed on the docs at the website. If you can't figure something out
from those, dig into the source. Happy hacking!
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Michael J. Giarlo
leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote:
I'd start here:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/
There are some tutorials in
If you already know PHP you might want to check out Symfony or another
PHP framework to get the hang of web frameworks, then move onto other
languages from there.
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Junior Tidal jti...@citytech.cuny.edu wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I haven't actively
Django is a web framework; Python is the language.
If you don't know the difference, I'd suggest sticking with PHP and going with
one of the frameworks available to you there.
On 2010-10-25, at 4:25 PM, Junior Tidal wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I haven't actively looked for
I know the difference.
Andrew Hankinson andrew.hankin...@gmail.com 10/25/2010 4:40 PM
Django is a web framework; Python is the language.
If you don't know the difference, I'd suggest sticking with PHP and going with
one of the frameworks available to you there.
On 2010-10-25, at 4:25 PM,
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Gabriel Farrell gsf...@gmail.com wrote:
If you already know PHP you might want to check out Symfony or another
PHP framework to get the hang of web frameworks, then move onto other
languages from there.
I've been using Django for a couple of years now, and have
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