On Nov 12, 1:12 pm, ayayalar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using Django for about 1-2 weeks now. I must say it is one > of the most exciting > web frameworks I ever worked with. It is clean, elegant, easy, and > most importantly makes sense. > I've tried to use many other MVC frameworks but Django is by far > better. However I am also disappointed on a few things about Django > that I hope it'll get improved with its large community support. > > 1) Django is not easy to start for a newbie: > One of the main reasons is, because of the limited resources. Such as > books (they get out dated as soon as they're published, due to > Django's fast changes). Online resources mostly out dated and are not > kept up to date. (e.g.www.djangobook.com) > > 2) Django has drastic changes between releases: > Oh boy, try to follow the Django book to create an admin site. Turns > out that with the release 1.x. this has significantly changed from the > prior release. > > 3) There are other minor issues and gotchas blocks you from > development and requires exhausting googling in order to move forward > due to lack of up to date documentation, limited resources, and again > Django's fast changes. > > I know Django is new and improving. I just wanted to point out these > issues a newbie is might be facing. >
I disagree with "Django is not easy to start for a newbie". The online docs and tutorial at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ are excellent and are current. The book is out of date, just use it as a back up to the docs. Also you will get many answers in the IRC channel and on this group. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
