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Django for Beginners: Build Websites with Python and Django (Welcome to Django)

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Django for Beginners is a project-based introduction to Django, the popular Python-based web framework. Suitable for total beginners who have never built a website before as well as professional programmers looking for a fast-paced guide to modern web development and Django fundamentals.

In the book you’ll learn how to:

Build 5 websites from scratch, including a Blog and Newspaper website
Deploy online using security best practices
Customize the look and feel of your sites
Write tests and run them for all your code
Integrate user authentication, email, and custom user models
Add permissions and authorizations to make your app more secure
Identify common mistakes and errors so you can build your own websites

If you’re curious about Python-based web development, Django for Beginners is a best-practices guide to writing and deploying your own websites quickly.

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"When readers interested in web development ask me what to read next after Python Crash Course, I refer them to Will's books: Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals. I highly recommend you check out his work."—ERIC MATTHES, author of Python Crash Course

"If you’re looking for a guide into the world of Django, then the three-step of Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals is ideal: get up and running, get into APIs, which are a cornerstone of modern app development, and then add the bits you need to your fledging app into production, from databases and static files, to user accounts and security. It’s a long road. Will’s books are an awesome companion."—CARLTON GIBSON, Django Fellow and Django REST Framework core contributor

"Will's books are a fantastic resource for web development with Django and Python. I highly recommended them"—JEFF TRIPLETT, Python Software Foundation Director, DEFNA President, and REVSYS Partner

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This book focuses on building some basic apps but not the concept

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2018

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I have read 70% of this book and I have finished a couple of books in the past about Django. This book focuses on class-based view and completely ignores function based view. The problem with this book is that like most of the other Django books in the market its mostly copy paste of codes with poor explanations of logic behind them. In fact this one is one the worst. I do not recommend this book if you really want to learn the logic behind Django model-view-controller. In sections related to view, and tests it does not explain how all those methods work and interact with models forms, views and templates. One good point about this book is that it has an iterative learning style. It starts with a very simple project and then start another project with repetition of the process. This helps to repeat some of the functionalities and remember them will but as I mentioned focus of this book is not on the concept behind all MVC especially in the second half of the book

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Really Good, Missing Something

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2018

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I am a developer who is strong with the PHP language who has been working with Drupal, a PHP based framework, for many years. As my company has been recently been taken over by an investment firm, full of people who don't know what "php" or "Drupal" means, that makes them afraid.
My development team has been looking for something that might be easier for them to not understand...
Enter Python. They have heard of that. They feel better.
After a bit of research, Django looked to be our best path as a framework going forward. Strong community support was our benchmark and Django had that in spaids.
So, here we came: learn Python and learn Django. All of that silly backstory aside, I was game. Even enthused. And my early dummy tutorials on python were promising, and then came Django.
Let me be plain, GOOD BOOK. It does do what it promises. It teaches you how to build a Django website and shows you some python stuff.
The glaring omission of this book is where the business logic goes. Much of this book is about make this content, edit this content, see this content, update or delete this content...
Hi, I live in a real programmer world. I don't just input content, I do stuff with it. I analyze it. I mess with it. And I like doing that. And my investment firm expects me to do that. Yesterday.
I didn't expect for this book to tell me how to save the world, but I did wish it would have told me where to do so. Where does my business logic go?
That rant aside, this book left me comfortable working with Python and Django. I'll figure the rest out.

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Pg 3, in "Why this book" section:
"My goal is that this book fills in gaps and showcases how beginner-friendly Django really is."
This book did more than that for me.

Best book for learning Django. Unlike other books, THIS BOOK IS CURRENT! According to the last page of my book, it was PRINTED ON THE DAY I ORDERED IT!

This book ->introduces<- everything you need to work w/ Django.
- setup
- pipenv
- structure
- urls, forms, templates, statics, etc
- testing
- deploying to heroku
You won't be an expert, but it's nice to be able to practice a complete workflow b/c these things are just as important as learning Django itself.

My Django journey:
I did Python projects for about 4 months. When I felt comfortable w/ terminal and tkinter scripts, I moved onto DJango.

I started w/ the official tutorial.
- I got through it but didn't understand most of it.
I battled w/ basic projects for about a month.
Purchased Two Scoops of Django 1.11.
- Forced myself through 3/4 of it
- Understood about a 1/3 of it
- Adopted their suggested project structure
- Failed miserably at cookiecutter Django
By now, could set up basic projects, but didn't fully grasp urls, forms, templates, static, and a few others.

This book helped piece all of that together. The way that it progresses helps hammer in the basics.

It starts with a simple project. Then a second project, repeats the simple project but adds an element. Then a third that repeats the simple project, the previous element, then introduces another element. And so on.

Most things just sort of fell into place as I went through the book. Forms, however.... I re-read that chapter like 5 times before it finally clicked.

Is this book for complete beginners? Maybe, I don't know. I learn by fighting my way through a project or two and then going through official tutorials, courses, or books to fill in gaps. This book did that, and more.

It's been a few months since I got through the book. I have since done a few projects for work and friends, and am able to navigate through the official Django documentation quite well. Can't wait until Two Scoops ... 2.2 comes out. And all thanks to this book.

If you're like me: you learn by doing and like to fill in gaps reading books.
If you've done a few projects and can set up a project and get some pages up but are looking for that extra resource to explain how forms work, or you just don't quite get how to structure the project, or something similar.
This book is for you.

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Will get you up and running in a few hours

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2022

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This book is exactly what I was looking for: quick and easy instructions for getting a simple site running using Django. It gives very thorough instructions for the development and just enough details about what's going on under the hood. It also gives details on how to deply your site to Heroku.

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Excellent Django Tutorial

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2018

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This is an excellent up-to-date tutorial for Django 2.0 and Python 3.7, written by an expert for beginners or those just a little more advanced. The book (also an eBook) starts with several projects from a simple setup to a modest blog. This much is also available online. The rest of the book continues to add functionality and finishes with 'newspaper-type' blogsite. Will takes us through all of the important aspects of Django, including class-based views which are much easier to understand than function-based views. Added at an early stage are the expected GIT and Bitbucket versioning tools (Like Will, I prefer Bitbucket to Github) and deploying via Heroku. Something that never seems to appear in other tutorials is a method of sending an email after a password reset request. Will recommends SendGrid. Here the book is a little out of date, but his eBook has been amended to cover the latest SendGrid methodology. Here's a tip: don't use the same email as the email you used to sign up to SendGrid when requesting a password reset on your site. I also liked the sections on Permissions and authorisations. Overall, there is a wealth of information in this book and IMHO it is the best Django tutorial available at the moment (I don't discount 'djangogirls' but that used function-based views). At the end (of course it never ends!), I felt confident that I knew enough about Django to delve further into the documentation without getting lost (well, almost). I highly recommend this book.

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Kieran O'Malley

Django for the beginner

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2019

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I've dabbled in python for a few years (non-professionally) and had decided to have a look at Django. Some of the tutorials seemed to jump around so I decided to get this book at it does indeed live up to its name!
Even if you don't know much python, all the code is set out in the book and easy to follow. Often when I had errors it was due to my typing rather than the book!
Only one issue I had was using pipenv (heavily used in the book). This is a tool under constant development and currently has bugs in Windows which meant I was unable to use it. However, there is plenty of resource on the web to use standard venv instead (and relevant adjustment for deployment to Heroku).
Highly recommend the book, and if you have a Mac or use Linux I don't think you'll find a single thing wrong! I've got William's second book (APIs) arriving tomorrow.

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Andy Pestell

Confidently build basic web apps within a few hours

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2020

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The best thing about this book is that it encourages, and enables you, to think deeper than the tutorials you're working on.

For example, Will lays out how to create basic custom user models - the code that allows you to add login functionality - really clearly. Within an hour of working on that chapter, you'll understand the fundamental ins and outs of writing code that allows people to log in and out of a basic website - and implement it on the projects the book leads you through.

But Will encourages you to think further down the line, so that while you're working on basic apps, you will understand how the principles apply to more complex apps later on. Following the book chapter by chapter gave me confidence, because I saw quick results (as you would hope from Django) and built apps that mirror real-world websites and functionality, but also had an idea of how what I was learning applies to larger and more complex apps later on.

It's also a super readable book; it reads the furthest thing from a textbook, but I can see myself going back to it as if it was.

I'll be purchasing Django for Professionals right after completing this review.

Mr David Bryan

Easy to understand, great structured way to build your knowledge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2020

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I am starting development of a web application in django, I already knew something of creating a django project, but this book really helped my understanding of how and why things are done.
I typed every piece of code (there are 5 projects, increasing in functionality as you progress), every section taught me many new things.
I found it so easy to follow. I bought the kindle version and had the reader open on my PC screen beside my editor.
The kindle version is full of links to useful resources and helpful websites.
I will be moving on to the Authors Professional book now.
Thanks for the education Mr. Vincent.

Chris Doyle

Excellent Introduction book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2020

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Like the title says this book is for beginners to django. It gives several projects to work through and builds on each project introducing new features and strategys. What I also like about this book is it introduces how to version control (GIT) your software and how to deploy it online(Heroku). Overall this book was a great introduction for me however i did feel there were a few areas which told you the how but not the why. This made understanding or developing new projects a little bit harder without understanding why certain things were done.

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