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Django is the leading Python Web application development framework, wholly endorsed by Python language founder. Due to Django, it could be argued that it has contributed greatly to Python’s growth recently.
Pro Django by Marty Alchin is a professional level, advanced tutorial and reference. It the only book of its kind written by a Django expert and power user, and endorsed by Django project.
Marty Alchin is a seasoned web developer, with prior work ranging from static content to highly dynamic web frameworks. Experience in several languages, both server-side and client-side, leading to a willingness to work in any environment. He is primarily interested in server-side work using Python, preferably with the Django web framework.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Truly amazing book for experienced Django developers,
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This review is from: Pro Django (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)
This book is best for those that have been using Django for a while and are ready to move to the next level, a lot of this book goes into internals that wouldn't be interesting and would be hard to understand for someone with only a basic knowledge of Python or Django.
This book goes on a chapter-by-chapter tour of all of the major components of Django: models, views and templates, forms, etc. Each chapter is brilliantly structured with a discussion of topics followed by a real world example where the skills covered in that chapter are applied (generally to make something that is fully functional and actually useful: like a new 'PickleField' class in the chapter on models) It is also worth mentioning that Chapter 2 of this book is perhaps the best overview of 'advanced Python' I've ever seen in print, and by the time I'd read it I'd already improved my code. Because it may be useful to understand my skill level: I have been using Django for close to two years and have about ten Django projects under my belt and writing Django apps is part of my day job, I've also made minor contributions to django itself. The code that I was writing as I read this book was way better than the code I'd been writing for months, and I also feel a lot more confident in attempting to contribute to Django itself with my much deeper understanding of the internals.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Deep yet readable. And very useful.,
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I haven't finished reading it, but my first impression of this book is excellent. It does not merely rephrase the official Django docs but goes deeper into it than any other current book, and goes deeper into Python than most Python books. The advanced Python features that make Django tick are clearly explained. I'd give it five stars if covered automated testing and form wizards, two important but tricky Django features that are not so well documented. Highly recommended anyway.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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"Pro Django" is a perfect title,
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Pro Django is an excellent book on Django, but it's not for beginners. The term "Pro" gets thrown around a lot, and it gets applied to things that might better be described with "Dummies." This is the Real Mc Coy - it's serious advanced stuff.
The chapters are centered around nice little chunks of the Django system: Models, Views, Forms, Templates, etc. Each chapter is a nice, self-contained bit of Django knowledge, except for Chapter 2, which is a great survey of advanced Python like meta classes. Most chapters also include an Applied Techniques section which gives some examples of how to apply the material in the chapter. While reading this book, what struck me was how the chapters seem to pack in a level of detail that you'd typically find only in a comprehensive reference, but yet this book is not a bunch of dry reference material, or worse yet, copies of online manuals. The reader gets serious detailed information, but it almost reads like a fluffy tutorial. It's pretty remarkable. Something that's unique about this book at this time (Q1 2009) is that it covers the 1.0 version of Django. A bunch of the first books on Django were written against 0.96 or earlier. You'd think there wouldn't be much difference (0.04 versions), but the jump to 1.0 was significant for Django. It's nice to have a book that reflects the 1.0 world.
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