Excerpts from Rodrigo Ruiz's message of Wed Apr 20 20:23:37 -0300 2011: > Hi, I'm a new programmer and I want to make a social network like > facebook or orkut.
Hi Rodrigo, > I only know the basics of C and a bit of Objective-C (OOP). I know > nothing about web programming. I hope you don't do this on those languages :D > My question is, where should I start learning how to make my social > network with python (django)? Any particular book? opencoursewares? > Tutorials? First, you should learn web development, get used to it, take Django, do a couple small applications that will teach you how all this weird things work. There's a lot to learn here, but it totally worths the effort. Second, IMO, this whole social buzz is overestimated, there's not much difference with any other site beside that it's highly oriented to users and built by users, so you should focus on user-oriented development here, the user is the center of this little universe and interconnections are fundamental. The main problem with this sites is scalability, but that's something you should take into account when the site really suffers from this issue. > I've searched google for that information but I found nothing, no > books on social network in amazon, no tutoriais teaching what I need, > only found an opencourseware about python from MIT but it doesn't > explain how to make a social network. Yeah, I don't think it will be to much around, scalability papers maybe, but there's nothing different besides that that is worths writing. > I only found something about pinax, didn't really understand what that > is and couldn't find any tutorias/books as well about social network > with pinax. Pinax is a collection of applications that are usually needed by websites. It makes your life a little easier because their setup already takes into account the integration needed. > Thank you for your time, I hope this clears the things a little. Good luck, Matías > Rodrigo -- Matías Aguirre <matiasagui...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
