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Learn Python and Django
Here are some tips and tricks on learning Python and Django.
If you are familiar with the Python programming language, just jump right to the Django section
If you do not usually engage in programming, perhaps only in a course you took some time ago, I recommend viewing a video tutorial, as they tend to be more directed towards beginners. There's a lot of good python tutorials on YouTube, but here's the one I think is the best:
The New Boston's Python 3 programming tutorials w/ Bucky Roberts
Bucky Roberts has made programming tutorials on YouTube since 2007 for thenewboston, and this is actually his second Python beginner tutorial series, and thus it's one of the best beginner tutorials around for Python. If you're interested in learning more programming languages, I highly recommend looking at some of his other videos.
If you have done some programming in the past, and do not wish to spend a lot of time on universal programming concepts (like loops, conditions, objects etc.) you can skim the Python tutorial at the python documentation page. Chapter 3 through 9 are the interesting ones. Chapter 2 might be useful if you have never seen python before, or if you are on a Windows machine and want to add Python the the PATH so you can use it from the command line.
If you have not done a lot of programming in the past, I recommend watching this introduction series on Django.
If you have done some programming in the past, but not a lot of Python, I recommend this one-hour-lecture given by Simeon Franklin. I also recommend watching the tutorial mentioned below.
If you have done a lot of python programming, it might be enough to just watch this 'Create a Wiki in 20 minutes'-tutorial. Keep in mind that this an old tutorial (2007), and a lot has changed in Django, but the main structure and mindset are the same. There are three videos there, but if you feel comfortable with Django after the first one, rather than watching the other two videos, spend your time understanding the dokuspokus wiki app.