[Django] #23104: Links to alternative tutorials

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#23104: Links to alternative tutorials
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Reporter: miohtama | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords: tutorial
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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There exist couple of high quality tutorials for Django outside the main
Django documentation tutorial.

I was wondering would it make sense to put out links to these tutorials at
the beginning of Django documentation or tutorial section, so the
newcoming users are aware of the additional resources.

One very hiqh quality tutorial is maintained by Django Girls:
http://book.djangogirls.org/ (several contributors, well maintained and
updated in Pycon sprints).

This tutorial is based on Python 3.4 (comes with virtualenv, makes things
smoother) and has very good handholding going through from the steps to
installing Python every operating system to deploying Django to the
production with PostgreSQL. It also includes some basic web development
introduction like HTML and CSS.

If you see the benefit of including alternative tutorials I can add a note
box there with links to those.

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[Django]

#23104: Links to alternative tutorials

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Reporter: miohtama | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: master

Severity: Normal | Resolution:

Keywords: tutorial | Triage Stage: Unreviewed

Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0

Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0

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Changes (by timo):

* needs_better_patch: => 0
* needs_tests: => 0
* needs_docs: => 0

Comment:

I think it's better suited for the wiki which can be easily edited by
anyone: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Tutorials

We don't want to pick and choose which tutorials to list in the
documentation and verify which versions of Django they work with.

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23104#comment:1>

[Django]

#23104: Links to alternative tutorials

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Reporter: miohtama | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: master

Severity: Normal | Resolution:

Keywords: tutorial | Triage Stage: Unreviewed

Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0

Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0

Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0

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Comment (by claudep):

Completely agree with Tim. However, we might add a link to the Wiki from
the docs.

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23104#comment:2>

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#23104: Links to alternative tutorials

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Reporter: miohtama | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: closed
Component: Documentation | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: tutorial | Triage Stage: Accepted

Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0

Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by timo):

* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
* easy: 0 => 1
* stage: Unreviewed => Accepted

Comment:

I had a look at the wiki page and there are too many broken links and
outdated resources for me to be comfortable linking to it at this time.

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23104#comment:3>