Pro Django
by Marty Alchin · first published 2009
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…related books to pick up are: Pro Python by Marty Alchin Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé If you're looking to get into web development then, I'd suggest picking up: Practical Django Projects Pro Django and Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging Hope that helps!
on “Ask HN: Learning Python, Looking for book or class on software construction.” ↗…can modify that behavior if they want to without having to patch too much - maybe someone can comment on subclassing models.Model while not having Django consider it a model (I think I got it from the Pro Django book if someone has it available). EDIT2: modified the code to make sure that force_insert and force_update couldn't both be True.
on “INSERT or UPDATE in django's save() method” ↗…freely write notes and stick the little colorful things on them to highlight a page. I made a list of books but I noticed that there are few books about frameworks in my list. Like Spring In Action or Pro Django. My question is, does it make sense buying books about frameworks or getting more high level books like The Clean Code, Design Patterns or maybe both?
on “Ask HN: Do you read books about frameworks?” ↗http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Django-Development-Done-Right/dp/1590597257 The book is coming in a month. One big reason why there aren't a lot of Django books out there is because instead of trying to make money off of books, they focused…
on “Django or Rails ?” ↗…factories which churn out hundreds and thousands of 'engineers' every year. Its been 6 months since the post. I'm no awesome programmer, but I can find my way around. I can read 2 Scoops of Django and Pro Django and I'm starting to understand what they're saying. I can code in Python fluently. Good/bad, all subjective. I can build things and I'm happy. Its not a one time thing. I'm on IRC a few times a week…
on “Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here” ↗