Thanks to everyone for the feedback. This list is invaluable for discovering the answer to questions, and many of the more active contributors could write and/or present classes themselves. I guess I am lucky that they have day jobs :). But it takes time to climb the learning curve by asking questions via a list, and some people would like to get a more focused start.
Though I think a one-day class that runs through the tutorial might fly, I was thinking two or three days would be more appropriate, as it would give time to get into rather more of the framework and leave students closer to "production-ready". My own experience after completing the tutorial was that there was a vast expanse of stuff still to learn, and not too much guidance in the documentation (though this is improving over time). I just finished presenting our fourth public Python class, and the students there expressed an interest in Django training second only to "more advanced Python". So I think there's likely to be a market. It's just a question of the content and sequencing. regards Steve On Dec 10, 2:28 am, "Skylar Saveland" <skylar.savel...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1, Perhaps building a fully-working site using all parts of Django, > implementing interesting and useful features. Also setting-up with reverse > proxy/static server with lean, fast networking. Depends on how long the > class is I suppose. > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Jane <jane_sm...@pbpost.com> wrote: > > > I think it would be good to ask students how they plan to use django. > > For myself, we'd like to deploy databases on a web page, and I'm > > interested to learn how much of that can be done in python and django, > > then what do you add to make the database look pretty for outside > > users. > > > On Dec 8, 11:06 am, Steve Holden <holden...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am looking at expanding our training offerings for the coming year, > > > and a short course in Django looks like it might be popular. There > > > don't seem to be many Django classes at the moment, and several of the > > > students from our introductory Python classes expressed interest in > > > Django. > > > > Without wanting anyone on the list to do my work for me, it would be > > > useful to see some opinions about what to include. The tutorial gives > > > people a good start: should we assume that anyone who wants to take > > > the class has already run through that, or would it be better to start > > > from scratch? > > > > Django is such a rich platform it would be possible to write several > > > classes: what material do readers regard as the "essentials of > > > Django", and what should be relegated to more advanced classes? What > > > can I do to put a compelling introductory class together? > > > > regards > > > Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
