Re: Should tutorial start with minimal Django?

2016-03-07 Thread Tim Graham
I think it could be useful to document that you can use Django with such a minimal setup. My preference wouldn't be to put it in the tutorial but maybe it has a place in docs/topics/overview.txt or similar. On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 8:07:38 PM UTC-5, Curtis Maloney wrote: > > When we were tea

Re: Should tutorial start with minimal Django?

2016-03-01 Thread Curtis Maloney
When we were teaching MelbDjango, I did start by writing views in the root urls.py this avoided students having to create a bunch of files and apps and references and imports and... For some of the students transitioning from PHP, it was much easier to deal with only learning one thing at

Should tutorial start with minimal Django?

2016-03-01 Thread Bobby Mozumder
Hi, Here’s an example of minimal Django, where one can output run an full site from a single file: https://github.com/rnevius/minimal-django The author made the comparison to Flask. I believe the tutorial should start out with this, as the initial Part 0, to introduce the audience to the fram