Chris, I think was somehow in the same stage not so long ago... Here is how I went about it:
1. I watched a db-class video from time to time (teaches you what joins are etcetera). Using the ORM without db knowledge is ok if efficiency is not your main concern. Sooner or later you have to make database design choices and only relying on the community is going to slow you down. Good advice is expensive (time or effort). 2. Having read the docs on djangoproject.com (which are huge), I read djangobook.com, then I started building my own apps following some of the tutorials from https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Tutorials. I made myself a todo-app, for instance. There are about three or four tutorials for that and each of them adds some knowledge (the nettuts one is for true beginners). If you work on you app a bit you'll gain knowledge in testing, migrating, implementing design and much more. I always asked myself 'does my program solve a problem'. If it does not, you will get lost pretty quickly. 3. ? Not sure what the next step would be? Deploy a small website? Use third party OS code? Any suggestions? Cheers wC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/GBXHWYTcLqwJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
