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Can anyone speak to the demand, or lack thereof, for Django books and educational material? Do large(r) technical publishers not see a viable market for Django books?
I read Two Scoops Of Django (on vacation, no less) and would love to see more books on Django best practices.
Having said that, for a long time I have been evaluating popularity, risk of adoption, and job market impact of technologies using the number of O'Reilly books and videos published on the subject as a crude measure.
The Django documentation is absolutely fantastic[1]. It and PostgreSQL are my personal gold standards for documentation.
[1] At least from my experience playing with it. I have not tried to use Django in anger, but it feels like the docs will hold up well.
When I learned Django, the existing books were, how can I put it, awful. Really
Sorry, but the ones that were "recommended" to me had no sense of a learning curve whatsoever. I was left frustrated by them, thinking I would never learn this.
And beyond the Django tutorial on the site, you're left all by yourself.
2SoD is good, but it's a book for advanced users.
It is really a sad situation.