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by naithemilkman 4950 days ago
I think the best way to learn anything is by doing. So a great place to start is djangoproject.

Following which, I recommend trying to build from scratch simple webapps that uses 3rd party api's like Twitter or Flickr.

The goto book is http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-Django-Development-Ri...

For some reason, a lot of the django books are outdated.

As for the versions, I would say go with Python2.7/Django1.4

I wrote a short checklist that might help you in your progress!

http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/what-every-...