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Practical Django Projects (Pratical Projects) | 
 enlarge | Author: James Bennett
Publisher: Apress
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 16474
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 1590599969
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9781590599969
ASIN: 1590599969
Publication Date: June 23, 2008
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Product Description
Build a django content management system, blog, and social networking site with James Bennett as he introduces the popular Django framework. You’ll work through the development of each project, implementing and running the applications while learning new features along the way. Web frameworks are playing a major role in the creation of today’s most compelling web applications, because they automate many of the tedious tasks, allowing developers to instead focus on providing users with creative and powerful features. Python developers have been particularly fortunate in this area, having been able to take advantage of Django, a very popular open source web framework whose stated goal is to “make it easier to build better web applications more quickly with less code.” Practical Django Projects is the first book to introduce this popular framework by way of a series of real–world projects. What you’ll learn - Capitalize upon Django’s well–defined framework architecture to build web applications faster than ever before.
- Learn by doing by working through the creation of three real–world projects, including a content management system, blog, and social networking site.
- Build user–friendly web sites with well–structured URLs, session tracking, and syndication options.
- Let Django handle tedious tasks such as database interaction while you focus on building compelling applications.
Who is this book for? Web developers seeking to use the powerful Django framework to build powerful web sites. Related Titles - The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right
- Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional
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 Not for Beginners August 26, 2008
Another reviewer noted that this was the perfect book for beginners/newbies. It is not. As stated in the book and on the back cover, it is for intermediate folk.
The book makes quite a few assumptions about the reader's level of Django and development experience, as a result it can be a very frustrating experience for a beginner.
Please also note, as other reviewers have noted, that the book's code examples are for Django .9x (update: written for 0.96) and not for 1.0. Apress, the publisher, has not given any updates to the errata nor do they have the book's source code posted. So, if you are not an intermediate python programmer or an intermediate Django developer, you may find yourself throwing this book or your computer in frustration.
Other than that, if I could just figure out which version of Django it is written for, I would love this book.
Good, but already dated. August 25, 2008
This is a well-written book that is fairly easy to read. If you're new to Django (or web development in general), this book will teach you how things fit together. There are lots of code examples, and the author walks you through building an app, and then puts the complete code at the end of the section (which I like).
The code in this book seems to be built using the 0.96 release of Django. I started learning with the svn version (leading up to 1.0), and a large number of things work differently than explained in the book. If you buy this book and want to use version 1.0, you'll often need to read through Django's documentation, too. Also, the author periodically explains some basic python syntax in an effort to make the book more accessible to new python users. In my opinion, this could be removed from the book in order to spend more effort explaining Django.
Overall: A good book. I'm glad I bought it.
It's practically a book August 18, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Where's the chapter on deployment? You, know, that silly thing you have to do in order to put that practical project up somewhere that people can practically use it. Getting a Django application up and running in such a way as to not destroy your server when you get slashdotted (or whatever the kids call it nowadays) is the one thing nobody on Team Perfectionist seems to know how to do well enough to tell anyone else about, so they simply elect to avoid the subject altogether. What do they talk about instead? Regular expressions! Thank you, Mr. Hideous Neckbeard, I had no idea what regular expressions were until you came along. Your pandering rapport has completely distracted me the fact that the only way to get decent caching behavior out of your framework is to outfit it with third-party solutions that patch up the holes in your code.
This title is marginally better than APress' "Definitive Guide to Django" but not so much so as to make it worth the money they charge. Why it's taking them so long to reach 1.0 is a mystery to me as their "roadmap" is a joke rife with non-features, but this book definitely ain't compatible with the current beta, so it's practically useless.
Good, but poorly timed August 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a great book. 2 nits. One big, one small.
Nit #1: "Admonitions" seems a bit contrived.
Nit #2: This book should have either been released earlier or released 3 months later. The game is changing with 1.0 and all previous books will require fixes and updates to work. This increases the barrier to entry for newbies and should be rectified as soon as possible.
Wait for the next edition of this book August 11, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is a solid, practically-oriented introduction to Django, but be warned: the code in the book fails with Django 1.0. This is an important caveat because you cannot progress through the exercises unless you know the gotchas and how to modify the code accordingly. Some of the incompatibilities are quite major.
I found that the book pitches a bit low for an experienced developers and it's thin on discussion of the meat of what's going on under the hood. A minor issue with the book is the author's insistence on "admonishing" you literally every second page. You see, calling things "admonitions" one of the secret signs that Python nerds use to show that they're part of that very special little gang of elite hardcore "Pythonistas". For the rest of us, it's just grating (or maybe I'm just not dope enough to be a Pythonista, yo. Y'know what I'm saying, bro? Word.)
Issues aside, I do like its very hands-on approach and I'm betting that the next edition will be a 4.5 star book.
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