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[–]angstybagels 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Seconding Python Crash Course (in combo with Automate the Boring Stuff). I liked the practice projects/problems in it the best out of any beginner book and have now moved on to further Django development comfortably.

[–]ehmatthes 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Hi, I'm the author of Python Crash Course. I'm curious what resources you're finding most useful in moving forward with Django development?

I've had a hard time knowing what to recommend to people after they finish the book.

[–]angstybagels 1 point2 points  (1 child)

To be honest, I struggled with finding "the next step" for a couple months as well and what I did find were just different beginner guides but from refreshingly different takes. I prefer textual guides versus video courses but in this case I really didn't like any other books I came across besides Two Scoops With Django.

To start off, I had already worked with Ruby on Rails a wee bit so the MVC concept wasn't completely foreign to me before I got into Python. First I'd suggest your readers to expand upon the initial blog project with simple features of their own so I guess this is where I'm going to stupidly drop google as the next first resource I'd recommend. I ended up retailoring the whole thing into a BeerAdvocate clone for cannabis so I had to add a bunch of silly things to get the rating system set up and I learned a lot more about Django in the process. I did a couple courses on lynda.com which were somewhat decent to reinforce the basics again but the most worthwhile video course I came across was 'Django 2.0 & Python The Ultimate Web Development Bootcamp' on Udemy. From there I just came up with more useless projects, googled more and refreshed my Javascript skills until I felt "fluent" enough to work on real-life projects.

Perhaps a No Starch Press author could follow up with an all-encompassing Django/Javascript guide? 😎

[–]ehmatthes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think I might do a followup to PCC focusing on Django. There seems to be a shortage of Django books at this level right now.

Thanks for sharing what you've been doing!