I've discovered this excelent series of video-tutorials, the "Django from the Ground Up", but as it was uploaded on 09/08 I was wondering if it's still worth going through it or I will teach me and "outdated" way of working with django.
What do you think?
thanks in advance,
Ignacio.
I haven't watched the video, but I suspect it's out of date.
If the tutorial is from 2008, then it's probably based on Django 1.0. As I write this is 2012, the latest version is Django 1.4.
Django is pretty good at not breaking things between versions, however there are changes you have to make to get a 1.0 project working in 1.4. If you're new to Django, you might end up wasting a lot of time struggling with the changes.
Although I personally don't know "Django from the Ground Up", I would not suggest using 2-3 year old tutorials about in-depth parts of Django.
A large part of Django is still the same (forms for example), but a lot of cool things have been added/modified in the Django ORM and Django Admin. So it really depends on what you're learning. If it's a simple part or just an initial look than it would probably be a good starting point.
If you want in-depth knowledge than you will need something more recent.
I think teamtreehouse has some django videos (though I have never seen them), but I would suggest you purchase the django book written by the django creators "The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right". But be sure to get the second edition. You should also take a look at "http://harry.pythonanywhere.com/tutorial/1/" he has some very good tutorials you should work through. If however you really want videos try http://www.youtube.com/user/programmersbook he has has whole collection of django tutorials. The only downside on these is that the first 16 videos have no sound.
Anyway's good luck with django!
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this is - don't slap me in the face - a beginner question.
I have some knowledge in Python and Django, but it is not too overwhelming. I have a very appealing business idea in my head and I made it a challange to see if I can get the nessesary skills to make it come to life.
Long story short, somewhere along the road I want to be able to build an IOS and Android App (or bring someone in who can do it). I also need a homepage for this (Django is a good enough solution for this - this much I know).
As far as I unserstand it, I can use the rest API Framework to connect Apps with the Django Backend. Is this a good solution? Or would you recommend another way to realise this projekt?
Speed would be impartant for the final solution. Also I need good scalability, though, I don't plan to recreate Facbook.
Django REST Framework is brilliant, and the documentation is really helpful (http://www.django-rest-framework.org/), takes a little while to get used to but with django experience its very simple. There is also a short video tutorial(4 videos) by a guy called thenewboston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7gETuRKjw which will help get you started.
Hope this helps, good luck with the business adventure
Is Django-nonrel still active? I am interested on developing an e-commerce website that involves tons of catalogs and it seems like NoSQL is the best approach for this. I have background in Django but from what I found out, vanilla Django does not support NoSQL.
Enter the Django-nonrel as the alternative. However I am a bit concerned on the project continuity and community. Django-nonrel is a forked of Django 1.3, does this mean that it us outdated (since current Django is 1.5), or does it has its own circle and version after the fork?
In short, what is the status of Django-nonrel? Active?
This was recently discussed here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/1cdrqs/using_mongodb_with_django_whats_the_status/
where the following stands out:
"It does not exist yet. And I'd strong recommend not using MongoDB unless you have a good use-case for it. Needing lots of reads/writes in some parts isn't enough to justify it IMO. MongoDB's read/write performance falls back down to earth once it's put in a real world scenario.
...
Disclaimer: I'm a dev working on a series of MongoDB apps that service hundreds of thousands of users and wish very much my predecessors just went with Postgres."
Yes it is, I am using for a year now and is working fine, the only downside, at least for me is that you can't do contains search.
If you want to change ideas please let me know.
django-nonrel is not active now, I´m testing the last version, it´s a django 1.6.11 fork
git+https://github.com/django-nonrel/django#nonrel-1.6
working with postgre and mongodb as DB engines simultaneously and it works
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What is a good tutorial for Django other than the Django documentation? I need a tutorial to get some expertise with Django.
I don't know your background, but I would have liked someone to have told me when I started with Django to go over the basics of programming for the web. It's quite different to programming normal desktop applications. I learned a lot of things the hard way. (Even simple things like HTTP/POST/GET, the difference between desktop patterns and web application patterns, etc.).
It's important to understand what Django is, and what it isn't. It might be a nice idea to try a very stripped down framework (like Flask for example) in tandem, as it will highlight the 'heavy lifting' Django takes care of. Django abstracts a lot of things meaning you don't have to worry about them. While this is great to start with (you don't have to worry about sessions, authentication, etc.) you will eventually find yourself having to come to terms with them.
Furthermore, I probably should have sat down and learned Python before diving in.
Once you have the basics, Django is quite straightforward; the easiest way is to attempt a simple starter project, that is, a blog, CMS or something similar.
I think you should check out The Django book (2.0). This is the perfect second tutorial as it covers much much more in the same fantastic documentation style. It's also green.
There's also this list of tutorials on the djangoproject.com wiki but it's kind of outdated.
Beyond the Django book, I just started building stuff and googled the problems I ran into.
I am quite aware of the MVC concept, though I have never developed anything bigger in ASP.NET MVC, but I have been developing ASP.NET pages for years now.
So is there any good tutorial or even better: a book that is suitable for an ASP.NET developer and does comparisons? Especially I am looking for information on Django reusability/how to deal with components, etc.
Regardless of your background, if you want to learn DJango, try the free online Django Book.
I'm not aware of anything that will specifically compare ASP.NET code to Django/Python. There are a bunch of good books though. Practical Django Projects 2nd Edition by James Bennett is an excellent book. It has a couple of example applications you can build.
There's also Pro Django by Marty Alchin that really gets into some of the guts of Django. There isn't any "tutorial" kind of information here. It's more just an extension of the documentation.
Both of these books talk some about reusability in Django, but they don't dwell on it specifically that much. One of Django's design goals has been to keep things modular and reusable. Because of this, there are a lot of mostly plug and play apps that you can drop into your project.
Once you get a little bit familiar with how Django works, you should check out Virtualenv and pip to manage each of your projects. It helps out a ton.
Hi All I am new on Django and python.I want to wirte program with Django .So please share me useful ideas and concept.How can I set up djanog in my window OS.
I little confuse and occur some errors while I read ebooks.
Share me with all experiences please in step by step.
Thank for all
http://www.djangobook.com is your friend. Free, well written and generally ace.
First, if you're new in python read dive into python, you must use python 2.5 or 2.6 not 3 (for django at least)
For windows here's a good tutorial. Then read the djangobook
For further information you can read Pro Django
And remember the oficial docs is very well written.
This may help you to start
This is great resource for you Getting Started with Django
Enjoy.
The first thing you should do is get yourself a project, it can be anything. The classic django-learning project is a blog.
Python is fairly easy to learn once you have some programming experience. I recommend that you go through the official tutorial. This google class also looks pretty good. You don't need to know the standard library all that much -- just enough python to find your way around whenever you need something. I'd say you can pick up python in a few afternoons of work.
After that, go through the django tutotial to get an idea of how to get started. Then start with your project using the docs which are quite good. They also contain an overview and installation section which may be handy. After you've gotten your feet wet, read the django book and then go fix all the things that could be better about your project.
Just like with any kind of programming, the key is to be constantly practicing and improving your code.