[alwaysanoobie]

Any one have any pointers to learn the Django stack from the basics? Any specific video course or a book?

"Two Scoops of Django" was recommended to me by someone on HN. I think it is currently being worked on for Django 3. It is on my reading list.

[dchess]

The Django Girls tutorial is a nice starter tutorial for beginners.

https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/

[wilsonfiifi]

You can also check out William Vincent's books [0]. They're easy to read and follow.

A nice blog to also include in your django learning resources bookmarks is Simple is Better than Complex [1].

[0] http://wsvincent.com/books/

[1] https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/

[greenie_beans]

I wouldn’t start with Two Scoops if you’re trying to learn “the basics”. Check out the MDN django tutorial

[caioariede]

Two Scoops of Django and the Django Tutorial itself are amazing. I highly recommend both.

[esaym]

I would grab the "Django Crash Course" from Feldroy[0]. It is a tutorial starting from nothing, and you build a very basic app. Which sounds unimpressive, but it shows you all the best practices for app layout etc and when combined with Two Scoops, provides a great foundation.

After that, to really get to know Django, you'll want to do some "unconventional" things like use a class based view for a page with 3 forms... That should give you the "ah ha" moment.

[0]: https://tinyurl.com/2hkhd6px

[collyw]

The official Django tutorial is pretty good. Two Scoops is good for going from beginner / intermediate to intermediate / advanced knowledge, with best practices in mind.

[canadapups]

Tango with Django was by far the best resource I've used.

Two Scoops is more for people who have a django project already and want to learn best practices of django.

[nanna]

The latest version of Tango with Django is from 2019 and is compatable with Danjango 2.2. Has a lot changed since then, if one was to work with 3.2?

[canadapups]

My website was built in the 1.x version days and I don't think there have been any material breaking changes. My website is moderate in complexity... authentication, database, forms, file uploads, email, language support.

[nanna]

Thank you!

[onepointsixC]

Two Scoops of Django is probably one of the absolute best books to read on Django. I would read that before looking for anything else.