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Practical Django Projects
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 this book is for Web developers seeking to use the powerful Django framework to build powerful web sites.
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 this book is for Web developers seeking to use the powerful Django framework to build powerful web sites.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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July 26, 2024
It was a handy read 10 years ago when I wrote Python and Django.
The book is nothing too impressive.
"Practical X projects" books are out there to help you learn new technologies by building various projects. Why figure out projects yourself when you don't even know much as a junior?
Let someone take the creative wheel and actually focus on learning the craft.
Why 3 stars? The code snippets are hard to follow, and the book is dated, too. It was already slightly dated when I was reading it. I used it for its projects.
The book is nothing too impressive.
"Practical X projects" books are out there to help you learn new technologies by building various projects. Why figure out projects yourself when you don't even know much as a junior?
Let someone take the creative wheel and actually focus on learning the craft.
Why 3 stars? The code snippets are hard to follow, and the book is dated, too. It was already slightly dated when I was reading it. I used it for its projects.
August 4, 2008
It's a much denser book than you might expect - at around 200 pages it seems short, but it covers a lot material. Sometimes it seems that it's glossing over some important things - for example, get_absolute_url is used without any explanation of it's role in the django framework. I think this book is intended to be used in combination with a django reference, and it can be a little confusing on it's own. And it suffers a little from the fact that django is still in flux, since 1.0 hasn't been officially released yet.
That said, it's a very good introduction to actually *using* django. The on-line django book often explains a concept in too much generality - introducing a concept first and then explaining what a real django programmer would do only at the end of a chapter. This book doesn't spend much time explaining the underlying concepts - instead it focuses on real world examples - which I found preferable. For example, when I created my first project using the on-line reference as my guide, I didn't use any of django's generic views. But they are a real time saver, and clearly would form the foundation for any real django project, and Practical Django Projects makes frequent use of them. It has the only good discussion of newforms (destined to be just "forms", when 1.0 is released) I've found anywhere. It has a great example of how to set up your urls.py. Overall, if you're a budding django programmer, I would recommend this book.
That said, it's a very good introduction to actually *using* django. The on-line django book often explains a concept in too much generality - introducing a concept first and then explaining what a real django programmer would do only at the end of a chapter. This book doesn't spend much time explaining the underlying concepts - instead it focuses on real world examples - which I found preferable. For example, when I created my first project using the on-line reference as my guide, I didn't use any of django's generic views. But they are a real time saver, and clearly would form the foundation for any real django project, and Practical Django Projects makes frequent use of them. It has the only good discussion of newforms (destined to be just "forms", when 1.0 is released) I've found anywhere. It has a great example of how to set up your urls.py. Overall, if you're a budding django programmer, I would recommend this book.
February 14, 2009
As always, tech books are to be taken with a grain of salt. By the time you read it, it's probably out of date. (As is the case here.) Still... I would recommend django and this book as a starter drug into the world of python and web dev for folks who do Java or .NET for a living. (Especially you older cats like me.)
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April 3, 2012
A good hands-on run through of working with django. In fact its title describes the content perfectly: practical django projects. The first edition suffered a little from poor timing in its release date so make sure you get the second edition which is updated for 1.0 has some additional chapters, e.g. on deployment.
October 19, 2008
It's a good book, but most of the code is out of date. I wouldn't recommend buying it until it's updated with for the 1.0 release of Django.
March 26, 2011
Простая и понятная книжка, все как обещали. Я сначала хотела поставить 3 звездочки, но вспомнила книги про ASP.NET :)
March 18, 2012
real-world examples, practical suggestions, hands-on approach
August 4, 2012
very useful step by step projects done with Django.
October 8, 2012
Very good book for beginers.
April 15, 2015
Pretty outdated.
October 1, 2015
It's my first Django book.
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