What are the best books and resources for learning to develop, deploy and/or host Django? [closed]

Question

I'm a newbie on the Django scene coming from an ASP.NET C# background. I'm looking for some good resources to help me learn the ins and outs of Django/Python. Any recommendations?

Answer 1

• The community is a tremendous resource: IRC, Blog Aggregator, django-users

  http://www.djangoproject.com/community/

• ProDjango by Marty Alchin is a good book for learning the django internals http://prodjango.com/

  "Learning Python" by O'Reilly http://books.google.com/books?id=nEJ-jcYF2fMC&dq=learning+python&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=EBJhSoHvDs_tlAfDncmjDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4

  "Dive into Python" http://diveintopython3.ep.io/ (opensource title) from Apress.

• Videos of talks from DjangoCon or Pycon can be streamed as well. And the startthedark.com django from the ground up series.

  http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D415FAF806EC47A1

  http://pycon.blip.tv/

  http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/?author=8362

• I also understand that "this week in django" is being rebranded as djangodose, yet still many of the podcasts for twid are relevant.

  http://twitter.com/djangodose

  http://thisweekindjango.com/

• The rubyonrails podcast is another great resource. RoR podcast covers equally relevant topics of interest to both Django and Rails programmers.

  http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/

• Good blog post on deployment http://lethain.com/entry/2009/feb/13/the-django-and-ubuntu-intrepid-almanac/

• Make sure to learn pip, virtualenv, and fabric while you are at it. Indispensable.