Free Django book

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7 points·jkush··7 comments

Nice! although my one qualm with Django is that it relies to heavily on regular expressions for URL requests(Correct me if I'm wrong please!) After reading why the guys at Reddit are moving over to Django, it made me curious as to why they are doing it. Which lead me to learn Python and Django :-)

Yet 1yr experience = Ruby and 1yr experience = Rails doesn't exactly equate to brilliance either. Currently I'm having some trouble wrapping my mind around Python :-( and find myself going back to Ruby to try to solve some problem that I can't hack in Python(newb :P)

The regular expressions approach to URL management is a good one IMO. It's a clean way of managing dynamic urls without using querystring parameters.

It's their official documentation in a way -- sorta. I had some minor gripes with it while reading through, but for the most part it is very good.

I'm brand new to Python/Django so I suspect it will be a great way to get an overview that I might not be able to piece together so quickly otherwise.

I'd recommend this tutorial as a starting point then: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial01/

It's the official tutorial and is very fast, simple, and introduces a very good portion of Django.

Is it? I think the documentation on the actual site is more complete. It will be nice when they just get one set of complete documentation.

Don't know if it's been posted here before but I thought I would share it seeing as there's been a lot of Django/RoR comparison these days.

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