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Where can I find learning resources for django 1.2? I'm new to django and web-programming.

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I have started to learn django a couple of months ago so, I'll try to point out what helped me.

I started watching the series of screencasts on how to build a wiki http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=1100000 which is pretty easy. If you like watching screencasts they're not bad.

The official tutorial as pointed out before is also good.

I then progressed reading the online book on django. While it is certainly a good reference, I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point though.

I think a better thing to do is to read the practical django projects book by James Benett, the django release manager. It shows you a bunch of best practices which you might overlook (I did) otherwise. It uses django 1.1 but I think most of the code works (sometimes critized in reviews on amazon).

One thing that escaped me for a while is the wealth of third-party django apps which really make your life a lot easier but are not official so they are usually not in official supporting documentation (all of the above).

I recommend you start using

• South (for database changes)

immediately. Also consider start using

• virtualenv and

• pip (both for python package management)

right away. These facilitate package-management a lot and I think using these is considered best practices (I just had to clean up a easy_install-foobar'ed system and it's no fun). If you are interested in the best third-party apps for solving common problems in django check out the blog surfing in Kansas by django developer Eric Holscher. There is also a video from the recent djangocon.

Finally, if you are like me and wondering about the magic that django does, you might want to check out this blog post or this video (3hrs) (and slides) by James Bennett explaining the internals of django very well (I like the blog post better, but take your pick).

Also: I was unaware of the django-users mailing list, this is very helpful and - as far as django is concerned - much more active than stackoverflow.

Django is awesome! I really hope you like it ;)

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What about the official tutorial?

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial01/

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The online documentation is pretty good. And there's a tutorial for beginners.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/

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This resource http://www.udemy.com/full-django-tutorial/ at Udemy can be good starting point.

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There's also the djangobook covering the 1.x.x versions. http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/ That can be a good start.