On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:23:53 +0200, Bradley Hintze
<bradle...@aggiemail.usu.edu> wrote:
I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and
url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get
something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do
they tie together? I probably need to do the tutorial again. It seems
to me getting info from the user should be strait foreword but its not
as displayed by the rather lengthy tutorial. But than I'm new to
this...
Hi, I am a Django beginner too. If you don't have experiences with MVC
programming pattern, it could be a lot harder, but as soon as you
understand it, you will not see many things so complicated. Django is a
framework which helps you to save time by not inventing a wheel again and
again, you don't need to know how Django's blackboxes works, you only need
to know how to use them to work for you. Forms are perfect example - you
specify what fields a form should have, what data should every field
contain and the boring part - displaying, validating and redisplaying you
can let to Django. If there is something you need to do differently as
default behaviour is, you can override it. Django is a little harder to
learn as I expected, but my advice is not to give up and try to read
documentation again and again until every part begins to fit together.
What I am missing on Django, are high quality or complex tutorials. There
is only small tutorial on django home page and a little better (and older)
on djangobook.com, then good reference manual on home page (but with few
real examples) and many blog posts about specific problems. The beginning
is the hardest part. Try to create a real application, e.g. Content
Management System or Blog or Photo gallery or whatever you want and ask
for a help on specific problem you encounter during development, there are
many good people who will help you.
Regards,
Martin
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