Would increasing the scope of the django tutorial itself and deprecating the djangobook solve the issue of new users learning django?
- The tutorial does a really great job of introducing the basics. - Online resources for learning django have improved, significantly, since 0.96. Although it can be difficult to find an up-to-date and correct reference. - 2 scoops of django handles the more difficult/advanced concepts really well. - Without someone managing the djangobook alongside django itself, there are going to be times where the book will contain out of date material. Problems: - Maintaining an increased scope of the django tutorial would be difficult. As Daniel mentioned, there are no tests for prose. I've heard other core devs speaking about the complexities of keeping the tutorial current. - Identifying areas for increased scope would have to be done really carefully. What do users have trouble understanding? If it's something like deployment, which methods would be "blessed", and is that appropriate for a "learn django" tutorial or is that more appropriate for an operations guide of some sort? It's impossible to cover everything in a tutorial/book format without investing significant time and resources as Daniel Greenfield mentioned. This is the domain of authors and publishers traditionally, and 2-scoops is currently filling that role. I don't see how a GSoC project would fix the situation. Even if the participant was able to bring the djangobook into line with 1.6 or 1.7, who would take over and keep it current after that? Cheers Josh On Sunday, 23 February 2014 04:31:16 UTC+11, Devashish Badlani wrote: > > Sir, > > > Sample projects with the updated Django 1.6.2,use of latest modules in > each of them and an helpful documentaion ,would certainly enhance the value > of DjangoBook is what I feel > > Regards, > Devashish Badlani > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/617d7cbf-c186-46bf-be38-91081ca0676e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
