Re: 1.8 or 1.9?

2016-05-14 Thread Ankush Thakur
I've done the official tutorial and the Django Girls tutorial (I like the latter better ^.^) but now want to learn to build something nontrivial. I saw a thread on Reddit that talked about frustrations arising from minor inconsistencies between libraries and non-LTS releases. What would be your

Re: 1.8 or 1.9?

2016-05-14 Thread Ankush Thakur
Thank you, Florian! :-) Indeed, stability and job market are what's on my mind. It's comforting to know what I can stick to LTS versions and be assured of (almost 100%) stability. Just another minor concern: What if, say, the other minor upgrade rolls out a really cool feature that takes out a

Re: 1.8 or 1.9?

2016-05-12 Thread dk
will be better to hit your head vs the wall now using 1.9, than later in a real project,plus there is not much difference, they added a couple of things, but mostly is the same, I would do the Django tutorial of Django website before, step by step. On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 8:55:15 AM

Re: 1.8 or 1.9?

2016-05-12 Thread Florian Schweikert
On 12/05/16 18:36, Sean McKinley wrote: > I haven't taken the course, but the differences between basic Django 1.8 > and 1.9 are not all that significant and you can find out if you are > being taught something odd by reviewing 1.9 release notes. Big caveat, > syncdb is gone in 1.9 so you have to l

Re: 1.8 or 1.9?

2016-05-12 Thread Sean McKinley
I haven't taken the course, but the differences between basic Django 1.8 and 1.9 are not all that significant and you can find out if you are being taught something odd by reviewing 1.9 release notes. Big caveat, syncdb is gone in 1.9 so you have to learn migrations if the Udemy course is using

1.8 or 1.9?

2016-05-12 Thread Ankush Thakur
I want to take a Udemy course on Django because it shows how to make an e-commerce website. The only catch - it follows Django 1.8. So my question is: Will I be "wasting" my time learning a possibly outdated (or unrecommended) version of Django? I have a feeling the changes aren't going to be that