It's an excellent reference for best (and common) practices, but I wouldn't recommend it so much as a learning tool. The 1.11 version weighs in at 549 pages an

It's an excellent reference for best (and common) practices, but I wouldn't recommend it so much as a learning tool. The 1.11 version weighs in at 549 pages and covers everything from installation and dev environments to security and continuous integrations. It's quite thorough and obvious the authors are well-versed in Django development. Highly recommeded.