Django Tutorials

General Tutorials

• ​Django Lessons - Weekly screencasts about Django and its ecosystem for intermediate developers
• ​Django Girls tutorial - the course material used for the DjangoGirls workshops
• ​Learn Django - An entry level and project-based course to learn Django
• ​Intuitive 20 video tutorial series for Django beginners
• ​Short beginner tutorial on building a basic blog site
• ​Full Web Framework Python Django Tutorial
• ​Going Through Django Screencasts
• ​Build a portfolio app in 30 minutes with Django (2006)
• ​Django Djumpstart: Build a To-do List in 30 Minutes (2006)
• ​Django bird's (German)
• ​Django Workshop (German)
• ​How to Tango with Django - A beginners guide to web development using Django 1.5.4 - 1.7
• ​Django Web Framework (Vietnamese)
• ​A simple todo list
• ​Dockerizing a Python Django Web Application

Tutorials on Specific Topics:

Note: ​Django snippets has plenty of code 'snippets' which do all sorts of useful things too.

Setup/Configurations

• ​Setting up Django on Dreamhost
• ​Installing Django on 1and1 shared hosting
• ​Django on Windows HOWTO using Python 2.5, Apache (with mod_python), and PostgreSQL
• ​Django, gzip and WSGI
• ​A comprehensive list of server arrangements and setup guidelines
• ​Installing Django on TextDrive
• ​Installing Django on Gentoo
• ​How trenchmice deploys Django
• ​Video - Installing Django on Ubuntu
• ​Django Lighttpd setup with SSL including init.d scripts
• ​Installing Python MySQLdb 1.2.2 on Mac OS X Leopard
• ​Setting up a Django Project

Testing Django

• ​Test-Driven Development with Python
• ​Setting Up a BDD Stack on a Django Application

Understanding Django Internals

• ​How Django processes a request
• ​The difference between blank and null
• How Django sets up model classes
• ​Django's Request-Response Cycle: A Visual Guide

Templates

• ​Django Templates: An Introduction
• ​Using Django’s TemplateTags
• ​Django Templates are not limited
• ​Django Templates: The Power of Inheritance
• ​Template context processors
• ​Write better template tags
• ​Using Myghty Templates
• ​Django Tip: Custom Admin Templates

Fun stuff with the Admin section

• ​An AJAX Select Widget for Django
• ​Use the Django admin for my PHP app
• ​Doing more with the Django admin

Generic Views

• ​Taking advantage of generic views
• ​Extending Generic Views

Email

• ​Sending E-Mails using Templates
• ​Mail notification of new comments

Searching

• ​Extending Django's database API to include full-text search
• ​Building Site Search And OpenSearch-plugin With Django
• ​Simple searching with Q

Signals

• ​Notification of new comments by email using signals

Forms

• ​A Simple Use of Django's New Form Engine (2007)
• ​An overview of newforms usage (2007)
• ​Django 1.3 Form API ModelForm Example (September 2011)

SQL/Database Related

• ​Custom SQL In Django
• ​Finding lookup items that are not used: Left Outer Joins in Django's ORM.
• ​Three Years of Worst Practice or Unbreaking Your Django Application – Christophe Pettus's slides from OSCON 2011 explaining Django & PostgreSQL pitfalls

Django's Comments Framework (django.contrib.comments)

• ​Using Django’s Free Comments
• ​Hacking FreeComment
• ​Notification of new comments by email using signals

RSS Framework (django.contrib.syndication)

• ​RSS made stupidly simple
• ​RSS made really stupidly simple
• ​RSS that's not quite as simple (bits-usage)
• ​Examples of adding RSS to a site

User Framework (django.contrib.auth)

• ​Extending the User model
• ​Use email addresses for usernames
• ​Enabling OpenID in Django
• ​Create your authentication frontend in django <- broken link
• ​Create your authentication frontend in django <- Archive.org

AJAX and Web 2.0h-yeah

• ​JSON Serialization in Django
• ​A really simple example of Django with Prototype
• ​6 part introduction to using Prototype and Script.aculo.us with Django
• ​A simple AJAX example
• ​AJAX in django with KSS, using ​kss.django application
• ​How to make Django Backbone and RequireJs working together

• ​Adding Realtime Push to Django Applications

Middleware

• ​Tutorial on building a Middleware to inject Google Analytics

Benchmarks

• ​Quick Django Benchmark between Apache's mod_python, Lighttpd's FastCGI and Nginx's FastCGI
• ​cherokee and lighttpdf Django SCGI benchmark
• ​Catalyst vs. Django vs. Rails Benchmarks
• ​Comparison between Symfony, Django and Rails
• ​The performance test of 6 leading frameworks
• ​Django Unscientific Benchmark between mod_python / mod_wsgi / aspen and runserver

Misc. Tutorials

• ​Django cheat sheet
• ​Django & Python Tutorial on Android
• ​Use the Django admin for my PHP app
• ​Some django gotchas
• ​Django’s Undocumented contenttype app
• ​Django profiling with hotshot and kcachegrind
• ​Simple Django View For Dynamic Text Replacement
• ​Highlighting Code Using Pygments and Beautiful Soup
• ​Dynamically serving static content
• ​implementing CNN-style voting, ​part 2
• Calendar-runthough A rough overview of the process. handy answer to "how does django work?"
• ​A simple tutorial for adding Growl notifications to your Django app
• ​Writing, Testing, and Deploying a Django API to Heroku with Semaphore

Framework Comparisons

• ​Evaluating Web Development Frameworks: Rails and Django (part 1/15)
• ​A brief Django/Turbogears Comparison from 2006
• ​Catalyst vs. Django vs. Rails Benchmarks
• ​Comparison between Symfony, Django and Rails
• ​The performance test of 6 leading frameworks

Export Data

• ​Export Data as CSV, Excell (XLS), or XLSX

Sample Project

• ​This is a sample blog project