Reviews for Python Web Development with Django (Developer's Library)

1. I give up

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, May 12th, 2009

   I'm using Django version 1.02. It could well be that the examples have not been tested against this version.
   
   I've been trying to get one of the examples to work for quite some time and I want to throw the book on the fire by now. It is very densely written, which makes it hard to understand. Ok, I need to do some work figuring it all out. I have tried the gallery example but was unable to display an image once I had uploaded it. I am halfway through the CMS example, having corrected some of the errors in the authors' code (the ones they don't mention in the hard-to-find errata). I've come up against another brick wall (Reverse for 'cmsproject.cms-search' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found.). Having entered this latest error message into google I find I'm not the first. This poor guy didn't get any help either.
   
   I'm sure Django is a great tool and I'd love to use it. But this book is not to be compared with books I used to learn c#, java, php and so on. I'm going to spend the next month and a half getting to grips with Python until the "Web Development done right" second edition comes out.