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| Practical Django Projects (Pratical Projects) | 
 enlarge | Author: James Bennett
Publisher: Apress
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 60583
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 1590599969
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9781590599969
ASIN: 1590599969
Publication Date: June 23, 2008
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 A must have! July 7, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book certainly doesn't disappoint. The examples are excellent, and can easily be abstracted and applied to just about any Django project. I found the TemplateTag examples to be particularly helpful.
The book is an easy read, and is a great companion to The Deinfitive Guide to Django. Two thumbs way up.
Good, but already dated. August 25, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a well-written book that is fairly easy to read. If you're new to Django (or web development in general), this book will teach you how things fit together. There are lots of code examples, and the author walks you through building an app, and then puts the complete code at the end of the section (which I like).
The code in this book seems to be built using the 0.96 release of Django. I started learning with the svn version (leading up to 1.0), and a large number of things work differently than explained in the book. If you buy this book and want to use version 1.0, you'll often need to read through Django's documentation, too. Also, the author periodically explains some basic python syntax in an effort to make the book more accessible to new python users. In my opinion, this could be removed from the book in order to spend more effort explaining Django.
Overall: A good book. I'm glad I bought it.
Must Have Book When Learning Django July 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you found that you have worked through the tutorial on the official Django website and are still wanting more, this is the book to get. I started working with Django about 2 months ago and first purchased The Definitive Guide to Django. I am not to familiar with any type of web or other programming and definitely not familiar with web frameworks. After working through the guide and reading some of the online documentation, I found that I was still confused in some areas.
Make sure you work through some of the basics of Django before reading this book. While it does take you step by step through making different projects, you may be confused if you have never seen Django before. There are a ton of great applications out there already developed with Django and this book takes you in to a few examples of them.
In my eyes, James Bennett is the leading authority on Django tutorials. I find myself finding more and more great examples on his personal blog every day. I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about Django.
 Could be perfect BUT these serious flaws: November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
1) The code examples don't work with the current version of Django.
2) Neither Bennett nor Apress have seen fit to publish updated code on their respective websites. In fact...
3) Despite several references to them in the book (eg p111), there are no source code downloads on the Apress website, period. I have emailed and called Apress customer support and received no reply. I also emailed James Bennett on this topic and received no reply. This is surprising and disappointing. I will think very hard before buying or recommending an Apress book again.
4) Not as serious as the previous issues, but there are virtually no screenshots in the book. Even a few would make the code in the book come alive.
Bottom line: The concept is great. The execution is bad.
[...]It helps, but unfortunately, you cannot download the complete source code from this site either.
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