On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian < rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Zachary Voase > <zacharyvo...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On 11 Oct 2009, at 16:09, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > > >> I don't want to be overly negative, but in my view rewriting the > >> tutorial would be a pointless waste of energy. It has served us > >> exceptionally well over the past 4 years, and none of the problems > >> with it are fundamental, we'd be far better served by working to > >> improve it, by adding more stages, than by rewriting it. Further, I'd > >> ague that the "staleness" of the tutorial is irrelevant, because the > >> primary audience for the tutorial are precisely people who haven't > >> seen it before. > >> > >> Alex > > > > I think I have to agree with Alex here. I’ve taught Django to a couple > > of people in the past, and I found that the tutorial (as it is) worked > > perfectly as an introduction to the concepts behind Django. After the > > tutorial, the Django Book[1] is the next natural step, and it provides > > a very solid grounding in pretty much everything, from development to > > deployment. To round it all off, Eric Florenzano’s ‘Django from the > > Ground Up’ showed them how to put what they had learned into practice. > > > > If there’s one thing *at all* that we should do, it’s add a chapter on > > testing to the Django Book, and perhaps another section in the > > tutorial devoted to it. But a comprehensive rewrite of the tutorial > > seems completely unnecessary. > > +1 > > I've trained 8 apprentices over the past 1-1/2 years. The existing > django tutorial is invaluable since it can be done in about a day. How about the possibility of an advanced tutorial, to highlight more advanced features. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
