Hi all, I'm a pathological early adopter, long-time developer, consultant and occasional technology trainer. And a Django user since the start of September last year.
I recently did a 'what is Django' taster for the development team at one of my clients, because I'd built a very neat asset management tool for them in a week using it, and their interest was peaked to say the least. So now they're talking about a proper program on doing Lamp development with Django. Which I'm more than happy to do for them. So, given how this is a move from me as (very happy) Django consumer to being somewhat of an evangelist, I thought it would be good to check in with the community and see if anyone had any inspiration or suggestions. I guess some questions would be in order. So if you were designing your perfect Django training program: 1. Any suggestions for material that would be good to cover? Typically the guys I'd work with are not guru programmers, but are the guys who need to churn out relatively simple, but good stuff for clients (I've done Python training for them in the past so they are baseline familiar there). Are there any useful tricks or gotchas that could save their receding hairlines? Are there any neat but underused features of Django that could benefit them? 2. What contrib.* packages do you think are must dos? (aside from the admin interface, obviously). 3. How important is really understanding config and setup? I tend to err on the side of thinking its pretty important, because someone struggling to get MySQL to talk to mod_python (for example) can get pretty stuck very quickly. But do you think programmers need to know that stuff, if it can be set up once? 4. Any other advice or encouragement? Thanks, Ian. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
