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I've been desperately searching on internet for where to start learning django 1.8,I am absolutely new to django and looking for good django books.is django documentation suffice to master django.how should i go over documentation if it is ample where should I start in documentation.obviously djangobook was one thing I found good,but it was altogether obsolete.help me out I am suffocating with confusion please throw some light on my mystery ,direct me.

Two Scoops of Django 1.8 is available as an early release PDF right now, and they are going to be releasing a paperback by mid-to-late May 2015. The PDF just received its second update.
I have personally purchased Two Scoops of Django 1.5 and 1.6 separately, and would recommend this book to anyone. It shows you many best practices. My current workplace will be ordering 1 copy of Two Scoops of Django 1.8 per developer, because it is an excellent resource we are going to use for on-boarding and training.

I'd start with tango-with-django.
Although the specific version in on 1.7 for this book,
it still remains relevant
Here is the link:
http://www.tangowithdjango.com/book17/

The official tutorial would be the best place to start.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/intro/tutorial01/
Most versions are fairly compatible, so unless you are looking at really old tutorials you shouldn't need to worry too much about the version.

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C++ - most popular framework for interacting with SQL? [closed]

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I am a computer science student and I want to do a personal project demonstrating some skills that I have learned. Recently I learned how to use SQL with PHP. Since PHP isn't as relevant as it once was, I was hoping someone could point me towards a more commonly used back-end tool where I still interact with my database through SQL queries. In my question, I specifically asked about a C++ framework since I am most comfortable with C++, but if there are much more common frameworks for what I'm looking for that use Java or Python, that would work as well.
Doing a quick google search gave me a very very large list of potential frameworks, so I was hoping someone with more knowledge in the field can point me towards one that employers would find the most relevant.
On a side note, I was also wondering if a framework is completely necessary, or if I can create my back-end just using native c++? If so, is this a valuable skill to look into?
Thanks for the help.
check out QT for the C++ GUI & MySQL for the backend...

Django 1.7 and The Django book [closed]

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I am gonna start my hands dirty in Django v 1.7. I wanted to know whether Django Book will be a good place to start despite it supports older version? Or recommend me some other book
Like it says on the link
This book was originally published by Apress in 2009 and covered
Django version 1.0. Since then it has languished and, in places, is
extremely out of date
I would definitely not recommend using this book to learn Django as many things have changed since version 1.0 (no class based views, no DB migration, etc.) When I tried learning Django I read part of this book and the current version of Django was 1.5. There were enough differences to make working through this book very difficult and frustrating, especially when you are a beginner. I would recommend reading through the Django Docs as they are actually really good and you can learn a lot from them. Otherwise find a book that is more recent (I wouldn't use resources meant for anything before 1.5 if you want to learn 1.7). I would recommend working through the tutorials until you feel comfortable then going through some book or more in depth resource. I found working through Two Scoops of Django to be very helpful as a beginner, despite it not being written for beginners, because I was forced to learn about many different simply to understand what they are talking about. Good luck learning django
Take a look for Django Girls they do a good starting tutorial for Django 1.7. The big difference here is migrations you no longer need to install south into earlier version of Django

Django-openauth-id documentation and installation guides [closed]

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On a few questions this package was recommended to provide Django with OpenAuth capabilities.
I'm new to Django and as one of my first projects, I'm trying to replicate StackOverflow's login and registration mechanisms. the only two documents that relate to the usability and installation of the package are the README and openid.txt files. edit I forgot to mention the example in their code base /endedit
I implemented what the files and example implemented, but so far I still feel lost in terms of actually understanding how the mechanism works and how to build a site with openauth-id integration.
The questions I have involve:
Best practice way to include multiple openID providers
Proper way to connect the to the Django-user models
Handling any security, privacy, etc issues that may arise
I have put up an example of using django-openid-auth with openid-selector(http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/) for a nice UI on github. See if this helps.
https://github.com/rajasaur/openid_userprofiles
If something is not clear from the examples, please ask and Id be more than happy to help
Imho:
You need to include each ID provider in a separate Authentication backend.
Bast practice is also to use build in User model.
Look for example plugin that provides multiple authentication providers
django-social_auth at github.
Hope that will help...

django-tagging or django-taggit, or something else? [closed]

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Anyone have a recommendation for a tagging system in Django? django-tagging seems to be able to do everything short of cooking and vacuuming for you, but it hasn't been updated in more than a year. django-taggit looks simpler but equally as useful, and is quite active, at least recently.
However, neither of these apps seem to feature a tag cloud. I mean a real tag cloud, complete with the HTML and the styling and all that. Not a tag by model (which is a feature in django-tagging, pretty neat), or anything like that. Just a straight up tag cloud.
Your suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks!
It's worth referring to djangopackages for these sorts of questions; http://djangopackages.com/grids/g/tagging/
You can see that you mentioned the two most popular with the others being hardly counted.
Personally I choose django-taggit. It's simpler, maintained by Django core devs and it has more recently been updated. It's also reassuring that the tox.ini in the django-taggit repository shows its tested against all the relevant python versions.
For me, django-tagging was bloated with more features than I would need but I understand they could be useful in some casses.
if tag cloud is what you concern, you can try django-taggit combined with django-taggit-templatetags. follow the instruction in the document in the second link, it's easy to implement your own tag cloud with few lines of template. hope this helps.

Active/Popular Google Code Django projects [closed]

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I am python/django developer. As a part of improving my knowledge and felt like I need to "contribute" to the field of open-source, I started looking for django projects in code.google.com. There were many. I am not very sure which ones are popular and which needs help. Can you help me out in this direction, so that I instead of using many open-source softwares(since 3 years), start contributing to atleast one of them.
I would suggest that rather looking for an active or popular one to contribute to you rather find a project that you would use yourself and contribute to that.
Using a product or project yourself will provide better motivation to get involved and provide first hand experience on what needs improving.
And of course, working on something you are passionate about is also much more fun than something random!
Give your time to django. Help them get 1.1 out the door and all of us who love django will shower you with praise.
I would suggest Pinax as a very worthwhile candidate. Overall though, I agree with Andree Miller's answer that you should try finding a project which you, yourself use and feel needs improvements.
Good luck!