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   by leifos 13y ago

   We are still investigating the options, but OpenAuth seems like a pretty useful open and applicable standard for authenticating users. In the book, we are trying to build up a series of guides on useful tools and toolkits for doing things.
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   by leifos 13y ago

   Yeah there are a million ways to deploy for simplicity we choose PythonAnywhere. This was mainly because when you are teaching 200+ students, you need it to be easy, quick, and free (also it doesn't require a credit card to join). We a
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   by leifos 13y ago

   Totally! We hope to put another version out next summer using Python 3 and the latest version of Django at that point.
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   by leifos 13y ago

   Thanks for all your comments and suggestions so far. Please keep the coming.
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   by leifos 13y ago

   Thanks for the tip. We hope to include a chapter that uses OpenAuth instead. It is on our TODO list :-)
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   by leifos 13y ago

   Thanks! We appreciate your comments. We'll be releasing a pdf and ebook in the future, but if you can't wait you can download the source for the book from github, see http://bit.ly/1bVKKJf We've written the b
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   by leifos 13y ago

   Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. It is work in progress, where we subscribe to the, Release Early and Release Often paradigm. Thanks to many of the initial readers, we've been updating the book regularly and catching the typos
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   by leifos 13y ago

   Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. By "beginner" we mean, someone with knowledge of Python, and who has started to play around with Django (i.e. started to undertake the official django tutorials). We started the book to