[johnthealy3]

I started working with Django in 1.3.1 as my first REST framework. When I got to the views, it was easy to understand how the function responded to an HTTP request:

if request.POST:

validate

save form

redirect to success page

else if request.GET:

show the form

Learning the views this way was very helpful when I barely understood how the internet worked. So naturally, when I took on an intern this year, I got her started with the Django tutorial, then gave her the above pseudocode as an example of how to write a simple form. After she worked on it for a while and got very confused, I looked over the Django 1.5 tutorial with her and saw those awful, overmagicked generic views they use now. I spent an hour trying to implement what would have taken me two minutes if the views were written manually, until I gave up and rewrote all of her code while standing on my soapbox.

Needless to say, I've been hoping for something like this project ever since.