Thank you very much, haven't looked up on your links yet, but it was very enlightening.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Dug_the_Math_Guy <dugthemath...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Rodrigo, > I'm new to Django too. I started with the tutorial, then bought a book > called "Practical Django Projects 2nd edition" > Its probably a comfortable level for someone who knows some > programming, > and it shows how to write some basic Django apps and includes a few > chapters about a social code sharing site > that he's implemented for illustration purposes. Obviously a code > sharing site is different than FB/orkout > but if you read it and see how Django apps work I think you'll be able > to understand how to write FB/orkout like > functionality. The "business logic" behind these sites isn't that > complex and once you have a nice language like > Django, you can write some concise apps that build that logic > gracefully. > You may need to know some about web development in general, > like what a HTTP request is and how to work with html & css > There are probably many books out there, I don't have any suggestion. > Also there is a video series on a video tutorial site called showmedo > that has someone writing a pretty much full > social site in a series of videos with the code available as well. > Its not exactly like FB, but its basically a site for college students > to invite each other to parties and find out what their > friends are doing the coming weekend. It should be helpful, though > will not be exactly like FB or orkout. > Here's that video series: > http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=PPN7NA155 > and also some other Django video tutorials that might be useful from > the same site: > http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/django > Good luck with your project. > I think Django is the right language to choose but I have no where > near enough experience to justify arguing that on a > development forum, I just think its cool ;) > Dug > On Apr 20, 8:06 pm, Rodrigo Ruiz <rodrigo.ru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can I learn how to make a socicial network website like facebook just > with > > those Django tutorials? > > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Ruturaj Dhekane <rutura...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Rodrigo, > > > > > I feel Social network is a hype term that has come into picture in > recent > > > few years. However such instances already existed many many years back. > > > Social Network is a word of two parts, Social - which needs > users/people > > > and their interactions with the system, and the word Network- which > means > > > that the interactions are amongst the Users also. Such social networks > > > already existed in the form of Forums, bulentin boards and even now as > Email > > > (mailing lists!!) > > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Rodrigo Ruiz <rodrigo.ru...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > >> Hi, I'm a new programmer and I want to make a social network like > > >> facebook or orkut. > > > > > Since you have specifically mentioned Orkut/facebook you can design one > on > > > your own from basic principles of what is needed in the social network. > > > > >> I only know the basics of C and a bit of Objective-C (OOP). I know > > >> nothing about web programming. > > > > >> My question is, where should I start learning how to make my social > > >> network with python (django)? Any particular book? opencoursewares? > > >> Tutorials? > > > > > Django tutorial will be quite helpful in first place. > > > > >> 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. > > > > >> 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. > > > > >> Later on you might want to read about AJAX to make your social network > > > attractive by adding dynamism and study scalability issues in MySQL if > your > > > website becomes a hit. > > > > > - > > > Ruturaj > > > > >> -- > > > > >> 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. > > > > > -- > > > 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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