Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-28 Thread Nate Vack
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-27 Thread Elliot Hallmark
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-27 Thread Alexander Johannesen
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.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-27 Thread Elliot Hallmark
 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,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Andrew Hankinson
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Nate Vack
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Junior Tidal
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Gabriel Farrell
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Gabriel Farrell
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Andrew Hankinson
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Junior Tidal
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,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Django

2010-10-25 Thread Luciano Ramalho
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