I particularly disliked the "it isn’t until part three that you finally write your first public facing view" part. Giving views such a high priority is just wrong. The first part of the tutorial covers the dev server, db setup, models and queries. Data models and queries are really at the core of (almost) any Django project, in a normal app most views will just execute queries and send the data to the browser.

I think the Django tutorial is an excellent piece of documentation. If somebody doesn't have enough patience to work through it, they probably won't have the time to read the rest of the docs either and will most likely end up writing messy code.