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I've done all the teamtreehouse python and Django tutorials. Which took a few months. Even did it a second time. Then also the django polls tutorial on the Django docs site. Plus the local library tut that is on the mozilla site. Also built a storefront using Django but I used 3rd party integrations to deal with payment processing and the shopping cart (stripe and snappycheckout).

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Have you read through "Two Scoops of Django" yet? I am not really a fan of any Django learning resources (that I'm aware of) outside of that one, and the docs. It helped me because it explicitly lays out an opinionated but sensible way of structuring projects.

I have read about half of it so far. All projects I have worked on recently I've used the Cookiecutter that Audrey and Danny offer. It's extremely helpful. Thanks for reminding me I need to finish it!

try searching for djangogirls and hellowebapp tutorial on google that helped me learn django basic concept in a relative short frame of time two months to be exact, then check out https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com blog posts on various python frameworks implementation and browse through github for various Django projects source code particularly drskepy django hackathon boiler plate. And if you still have problem with python checkout sololearns app on play store or appstore it was very instrumental for me getting a better grasps on python basics.

Author of Hello Web App here — thanks for recommending! I actually moved the entire tutorial online recently, you can read it for free here: https://hellowebbooks.com/tutorial/

It's written in a way to help you build something unique, which might help your issue, OP. Basically I walk through building a "collection of things," which you can alter to create something like a Twitter clone, a directory, a blog, a store, etc.

Happy to help, send me an email tracy@hellowebbooks.com anytime. :)

Thank you very much limedaring! I will not hesitate to reach out once I hit my next roadblock. Look forward to trying out your tutorial :)

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