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I think Django's documentation is fantastic. 90% of the time I have to look up something, google redirects me there anyway.

MattGaiser 7y ago
Django's documentation is great for developers who know their way around documentation like that as it is very comprehensive. It drills down nicely and is quick and easy to understand if you otherwise know what else is going on. What it misses is mapping that documentation to the specific problem a person wants to solve or the feature they want to build. When I was learning Django a couple years ago I found the examples and best practices sparse.
- jldugger 7y ago
  A long long time ago, there was a really great website called djangobook.com. It had like 20 chapters and projects explaining how things are done in Django, and each paragraph had a comments section where people could ask questions specific to that paragraph. That site probably did a lot for Django's success in the community. Unfortunately, giving away a free resource like that doesn't balance the books and years of neglect later the site no longer represented modern Django. It's entirely possible the new Django book site is just as good, but the paywall discourages novices and experts alike. My friends who stayed webdevs think Two Scoops of Django is close in scope, and comes with free updates. It's not quite the everbook that I had hoped the original site would be, but is highly focused on best practices.
  - VBprogrammer 7y ago
    The Two Scoops book is good but I found it difficult to read due to its extremely contrived examples. Maybe that is just me though.
    - porker 7y ago
      Not just you. Also annoyed at their pricing model; I bought the original book, 3 months later it was out of date and "buy our updated copy" was their answer. I got no use out of it.
- collyw 7y ago
  Compared to what I have seen with React + React add ons its fantastic. ("2 Scoops of Django" is an excellent book to describe best practices. It's something I haven't seen the equivalent of elsewhere).

MattGaiser 7y ago

Django's documentation is great for developers who know their way around documentation like that as it is very comprehensive. It drills down nicely and is quick and easy to understand if you otherwise know what else is going on. What it misses is mapping that documentation to the specific problem a person wants to solve or the feature they want to build. When I was learning Django a couple years ago I found the examples and best practices sparse.

jldugger 7y ago
A long long time ago, there was a really great website called djangobook.com. It had like 20 chapters and projects explaining how things are done in Django, and each paragraph had a comments section where people could ask questions specific to that paragraph. That site probably did a lot for Django's success in the community. Unfortunately, giving away a free resource like that doesn't balance the books and years of neglect later the site no longer represented modern Django. It's entirely possible the new Django book site is just as good, but the paywall discourages novices and experts alike. My friends who stayed webdevs think Two Scoops of Django is close in scope, and comes with free updates. It's not quite the everbook that I had hoped the original site would be, but is highly focused on best practices.
- VBprogrammer 7y ago
  The Two Scoops book is good but I found it difficult to read due to its extremely contrived examples. Maybe that is just me though.
  - porker 7y ago
    Not just you. Also annoyed at their pricing model; I bought the original book, 3 months later it was out of date and "buy our updated copy" was their answer. I got no use out of it.
collyw 7y ago
Compared to what I have seen with React + React add ons its fantastic. ("2 Scoops of Django" is an excellent book to describe best practices. It's something I haven't seen the equivalent of elsewhere).