Ask HN: Best resources to learn Python then Django?

5 points·webbruce··6 comments

Anyone have good resources to start learning Python then Django.

I'm an intermediate at Rails and PHP and I'm looking to learn Python then Django framework. Thanks!

http://www.djangobook.com/ is really good.

and unfortunately, outdated

I know this isn't directly answering your question, but unless you actually need to learn Django, I'd recommend sticking with Rails. I've done several projects with Django, and while I enjoy writing Python more than Ruby, Rails is by far a superior web framework. I would simply stick with Rails if possible.

If you decide to learn Django, nothing really beats the official tutorial. If you read the official tutorial, you won't have to worry about learning deprecated features or any of that nonsense. The official Python tutorial is quite good for learning Python, too.

Also, it's not even that Rails is fundamentally better, it's that they are alike in so many ways that switching, except for a particular job, is usually not worth it.

I've worked through the "Learn Python the Hardway" ebook. It's pretty good. There isn't much in there about Django though.

Python (2.7) tutorial. Django (1.4) tutorial.

Get a beta invite to gondor.io or ep.io so deployment does not become a pain in the ass.

"Practical django projects" is often recommended as good reading, I've never read it and it's starting to get abit old, but might be a good read.

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