Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-16 Thread Arun Ravindran
I would be happy to help in any way, Aby. You can connect with me through my email id. On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Aby James wrote: > I had gone through Sliderule, but the Django specific course is a paid > course in Udemy and the Udacity Web Dev course doesn't use Django. > > On Mon, Mar 1

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-16 Thread Aby James
I had gone through Sliderule, but the Django specific course is a paid course in Udemy and the Udacity Web Dev course doesn't use Django. On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:52 PM, L. Guruprasad wrote: > Hi Aby, > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Aby James wrote: > > Is there anyway we can collaborate

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-16 Thread L. Guruprasad
Hi Aby, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Aby James wrote: > Is there anyway we can collaborate together in designing and creating a > "step-by-step build a full featured app" series? (I really like the Hacker > News series) > > I ask this because when we conduct our session we explicitly say that

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-16 Thread Aby James
I guess the discussion is going offline. Arun and Sharayas, can I contact you personally on your email ids when we have kinda a initial plan ready for a learning path? Thanks for your inputs, really appreciate it. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@p

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-15 Thread Shrayas rajagopal
Hi All, [...] On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Aby James wrote: > The sore point we are facing right now (among many others) is the gap from > a beginner who have "learned" a programming language and "know" a framework > to actually building production ready software. One of the things that we

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-15 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Aby James wrote: > > > > Recently, I wrote a book for intermediate Django programmers to address > > such questions titled “Django Design Patterns and Best Practices” > > < > > > http://arunrocks.com/django-design-patterns-and-best-practices-book-coming-soon/ > >

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-15 Thread Aby James
> > Recently, I wrote a book for intermediate Django programmers to address > such questions titled “Django Design Patterns and Best Practices” > < > http://arunrocks.com/django-design-patterns-and-best-practices-book-coming-soon/ > >. > Is there anyway we can collaborate together in designing and

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-14 Thread Arun Ravindran
Aby, You have brought out an excellent point. There are several tutorials which are oriented towards building a working web application. But there is a lot of conceptual information that is missed. For instance, why did they design all their models that particular way? What was the best way to cre

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-13 Thread Aby James
Arun, thank you for the pointers. Your series on Building a Hacker News clone in Django is actually bookmarked but I totally forgot! How ironic. The sore point we are facing right now (among many others) is the gap from a beginner who have "learned" a programming language and "know" a framework to

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-13 Thread Arun Ravindran
Hi Aby, There are quite a few good Django tutorials, though none of them as extensive as the RoR Tutorial: - Django Girls Tutorial (available in PDF/ePUB/MOBI) - extensive and free - Test-Driven Development with P

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-13 Thread Aby James
Thank you Guruprasad. I am going through Tango with Django. Lemme see how it goes. Mandar, Kartik: Two Scoopes of Django is not free. Moreover, the 1.6 version doesn't have an ebook version (PDF/ePUB/MOBI). It is print only. ___ BangPypers mailing list B

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-12 Thread Kartik Singhal
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे < mandarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django-1-6 ? > > seems to have good reviews It's meant for best practices, not for learning basics though. -- Kartik http://techglider.in ___

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-12 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
http://twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django-1-6 ? seems to have good reviews -Mandar On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Aby James wrote: > Hey BangPypers, > > We are going to colleges in Bangalore giving them exposure about free and > high quality online resources to learn programmin

Re: [BangPypers] Good and practical resources to build Web Apps using Django

2015-03-12 Thread L. Guruprasad
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Aby James wrote: > A lot of students have shown interest in developing Web Apps in > Python/Django but we are stuck in finding a really good book/resource like > Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial: https://www.railstutorial.org/book to > recommend to them. > >