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Pages: 256 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1590599969
Pub: APRESS
Pub date: 2008-06-16
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 64265
Reader Reviews:
So near, yet so far (2/2 people found this helpful)
This has potential to be a great book, but it was released too soon and just doesn't make the grade.
The tone makes it seem ideal for a beginner, with lots of explanation and friendly step-by-step walkthroughs, but it skips over a lot of things in a way that suggests the author expects the reader to be an experienced developer. In the opening chapters there are several places where I winced as I imagined the frustration a novice is going to feel when something really simple that isn't mentioned or explained stops them in their tracks.
In short, it seems focussed on two separate and incompatible audiences. It's written for beginners, but needs experience to make things work.
Unfortunately, there's also a fair amount of content in the book that's just wrong. It's factually incorrect. The book was written and published before Django v1.0 was released, and several pieces of code in there simply don't work with 1.0. It appears to be based around the 0.97ish release and there are a lot of differences between that and 1.0.
James Bennet clearly knows what he's talking about and has a good easy-to-read writing style, but the book seriously needs to be subbed by a decent technical editor and the content reviewed when Django 1.0 comes out.
This could turn out to be a fantastic introduction to a brilliant framework, but wait until the second edition. The first will give you more problems than it solves.
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