[portland] Current django learning resources?

[Scott Garman]

Thanks everyone for the replies! This looks like some great info for me
to embark with.

Scott

On 12/23/2013 08:21 PM, Jason Champion wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> I'd recommend their basic poll tutorial for a start:
> 
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/
> 
> The Django book is a good intro:
> 
> http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/index.html
> 
> Once you have a good understanding of the basics, the Two Scoops of
> Django book is mighty good:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Two-Scoops-Django-Best-Practices-ebook/dp/B00CCK619K/
> 
> It doesn't matter that it's a version behind, the core concepts don't
> generally change quickly with Django.
> 
> For deployments, Fabric is very much worth learning, and not too hard to
> get the hang of:
> 
> http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.8/
> 
> I love Linode. Their servers perform very well with Django (I have ~20
> sites running on one of their $40 Ubuntu servers and it's /fast/). :D
> 
> Cheers,
> Jason
> 
> On 12/23/2013 03:50 PM, Scott Garman wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I'm planning to spend some time during the holidays to write my first
>> django webapp, and was wondering what recommendations people have for
>> books and online resources to get me bootstrapped and using the latest
>> best practices? I have some background in Rails, though that's gotten
>> quite rusty in recent years, and I consider myself intermediate-level
>> with python itself. Practical resources which include things like how to
>> deploy a django app are especially welcome - I have a Linode server
>> running Debian 7 as my target webhost.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks, and Happy Holidays!
>>
>> Scott
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