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Ask HN: How do I learn Django?
I found yesterday's post about how to learn JS pretty useful - I've been trying to learn Django myself, any ideas?
- belzebalex 7y agoIf you're French by any chance, https://openclassrooms.com/fr/courses/1871271-developpez-votre-site-web-avec-le-framework-django https://openclassrooms.com/fr/courses/1871271-developpez-vot... This tutorial is gold. If you're not, try reading it with Google Traduction. Apart from Django, Openclassrooms is the site where most French Programmers learned to do so, and it's an incredible ressource. It teaches you all the subjects from the ground-up assuming you have almost no knowledge.
- banjodeluxe 7y agoHey, not a french speaker but will take a look, thanks!
- matijash 7y agoWhat was your experience like with the offical Django tutorial & documentation? https://www.djangoproject.com/start/ https://www.djangoproject.com/start/
- gshdg 7y agoThe tutorial is pretty darn good. After that, maybe the book Two Scoops of Django?
- tcbasche 7y agoSadly I don't think Two Scoops has been updated in a very long time, so it's pretty out of date now
- snoozypants 7y agoThere is also a great podcast called Django Chat (https://djangochat.com/ https://djangochat.com/). If I remember, they mentioned the book or spoke about the writer quite recently and said a lot of the principles still apply. I've found they still greatly helped my projects. Things quite might change as async becomes a bit more popular with the framework
- cborenstein 7y agoAnother resource that might be useful is video recordings from the DjangoCon conferences. Here's the youtube channel for DjangoCon US: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0yY6a79pPY9J0ShIHRf6yw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0yY6a79pPY9J0ShIHRf6yw
- potta_coffee 7y agoMy favorite Django tutorial is the Mozilla one: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Django https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/D... After that I'd recommend just building something. Tutorials are great but I've always learned the most when I've just tried to build a real project.
- snoozypants 7y agoI've got a couple of students online and the one pattern I've found is, have a project in mind you'd like to build. It keeps that inspiration for longer vs. just going through tutorials and pushes you a bit more to learn specific things, "Okay, how do I process a CSV file now". You SHOULD still go through a good tutorial or two to get overview of different concepts and components in the frameworks (the tutorials others have mentioned are solid). One problem with learning while building (or learning by yourself in general) is bad practices. "Two Scoops of Django" is still a good one, though a bit old, but again it will teach some overarching concepts and approaches. And then getting feedback from others!
- stakkur 7y agoThree resources I always recommend for beginners: 1. The Django Girls tutorial (multi-language): https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/ https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/ 2. Will Vincent's books (also recommend his blog): https://wsvincent.com/best-django-books/ https://wsvincent.com/best-django-books/ 3. Tango with Django: https://www.tangowithdjango.com/ https://www.tangowithdjango.com/ Also, here's a somewhat more comprehensive list of Django learning resources: https://www.fullstackpython.com/django.html https://www.fullstackpython.com/django.html