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A Wedge of Django FAQ

What happened to Django Crash Course?

We renamed it to A Wedge of Django!

What formats is it in??

We provide PDF, epub, and kindle/mobi downloads with every ebook order. 

You can also attend the live online course. 

There will be a digest-sized print versions once the book enters its final phase of development. For print, we plan to support perfect bound, spiral, and hardcover versions. 

I've never programmed before. Is this book for me?

Not yet, but soon. We recommend you learn the basics of Python programming first. Spend a weekend with tutorials such as Learn Python the Hard Way or Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, then pick up this book.

What's your release schedule?

We plan to release the different versions of our book as follows:

  • Alpha E-Book: Late January 2020, with frequent updates as we improve the book. Updates will include corrections and many additional pages of instruction.
  • Beta E-Book: February 14th, 2020, with frequent updates as we improve the book. 
  • Final E-Book: September 8th, 2020, with intermittent updates
  • Print Versions: Autumn 2020. Once it goes out to print in perfect bound, coil, and hardcover, updates to the Django 3.x edition will slow down and eventually stop.

We may need to update this schedule depending on changes in Django, ability to get prototypes from printers, and the weather.

Can I see the table of contents?

  • Introduction
  1. The Ultimate Django Setup
  2. Hello, World in Django
  3. Preparation: Install Dependencies
  4. Generate a Starter Django Project
  5. Create a Database and Run the Project
  6. Create a Django-Superuser
  7. Practice Using the Admin
  8. Generate a Homepage App
  9. Prepping the Project for Templates
  10. Add a Simple Homepage View
  11. Create Your First Django Template
  12. Working With Variables in Templates
  13. Calling View Methods From Templates
  14. Your First Project is Complete!
  15. The EveryCheese Project
  16. Using Cookiecutter and Template
  17. Exploring the Generated Boilerplate
  18. Starting Up Your New Django Project
  19. Cheese Boilers
  20. Initializing the Git Repo Committing and Pushing
  21. Git Is Not for Stinky Cheeses
  22. What We Get From The Users App
  23. Adding User Bios
  24. Adding Bio to User Detail Template
  25. Introducing Tests
  26. User Profile Cheese
  27. The Cheeses App and Model
  28. Trying Out the Cheese Model
  29. Tests and Test Coverage
  30. The Cheeserator
  31. Adding Cheeses to the Admin
  32. Behind the Curtain
  33. Class Based View Fundamentals
  34. Writing the Cheese List View
  35. Wiring in the List View Url
  36. the Cheese List Template
  37. Add the CheeseDetailView
  38. The Cheese Detail Template
  39. Where to Dip Your Class Based Views
  40. Writing Factories for Tests
  41. Why Use Factories
  42. Using Factories in Tests
  43. How Your Cheese Objects Feel About Your Tests
  44. Finding and Adding a Third Party Countries App
  45. Display Cheese Country Data
  46. Implement Cheese Creation by Users
  47. Use Django Crispy Forms for Better Display
  48. Understand View Mixins and Loginrequiredmixin
  49. Add a Creator Field and Update Our Cheese Records
  50. Track and Display the Cheese Creator
  51. Update the Cheese Factory
  52. Update the Cheese Model Tests
  53. Test All the Cheese Views
  54. Test All the Cheese Url Patterns
  55. Adding a CheeseUpdateView and Form Recycling
  56. Test the Cheese Forms and Update Views
  57. EveryCheese is the Foundation!
  58. Changelog
  59. Acknowledgements

Will the print paperback be autographed?

We thought hard about this and decided against it. While we wish we could autograph every copy, signing books creates restrictions that make logistics challenging. For example, if we find a printer in Australia that can ship books to a fulfillment warehouse in Australia, we would have to fly to Australia to sign the books between printing and shipment. Flying to every country would be amazing but is prohibitively expensive. That said, we're very happy to sign copies of our books at conferences and meetups.

If I buy the e-book now, can I get a discount on the print version later?

Absolutely! The value of the discount will match the bundle.

Class-Based Views (CBVs) or Function-Based Views (FBVs)?

We only teach Class-Based Views (CBVs). Our reason is this:

  • We've found teaching FBVs then CBVs is very confusing for students
  • Third-party package support is MUCH stronger for CBVs than for FBVs. The canonical example is Django REST Framework (DRF), where FBV support is clearly an afterthought.

What's up with the extensions?

When we give our trainings after we build the foundations covered in this book, we structure our courses according to the desires of our students. The topic material we've accumulated over time is in a set of files. Our plan is to write "micro-books" based on this material and call it the Django Crash Course Extension System and charge around $2.99+ for each one.

This way, instead of putting stuff into the Django Crash Course book that you might not care about, you can purchase specific content for your needs. For example, while we know VueJS and AWS, many of our readers would prefer material on React and/or GCP.  Some extensions under consideration:

  • File uploads
  • Lots of additional views
  • Individual deployment/optimization extensions for AWS, Azure, GCP, and Heroku
  • VueJS
  • React
  • Django REST Framework
  • GraphQL
  • Async, ASGI, and Channels
  • Celery
  • Payment gateways like Stripe, Paddle, and PayPal

If you're interested in helping us write any of the extensions listed above or have suggestions for ones you would like to write, we pay authors a generous 50% royalties for books published by us. While we reserve the right to determine what we publish, we do promise to seriously consider every submission. Contact us at hi (at) feldroy.com.

Is this book good for data scientists?

Absolutely! In fact, we chose Conda as our Python environment and pip for dependency management. This makes getting everything right across different operating systems for students very straightforward. These tools also empower us to create data-focused extensions.

If I purchased the Alpha e-book, do I get access to the Beta and Final versions?

Yes, you get access to all subsequent versions of the 3.x edition of the Django Crash Course.

If I purchased the beta e-book, do I get access to the Final versions?

Yes, you get access to all subsequent versions of the 3.x edition of the Django Crash Course.

What happens if I use up all my downloads?

If you use up all your downloads you can email us to get them reset back to five (5).

Also, any time we update our books, we reset the download count back to five.

Will there be any translations?

Yes, while we don't have a concrete schedule for delivery, the following are in the works:

  • Brazilian Portuguese (included with purchase of English version from feldroy.com)
  • Spanish (included with purchase of English version from feldroy.com)

We're also talking to separate vendors for the following languages. These will require purchase on other sites:

  • Korean

If you represent a company that translates textbooks and want to translate our books to another language, please contact us at hi@feldroy.com.

I'm in Bangladesh, can I buy the book with Taka?

Absolutely! In fact, you can use Bangladesh payment gateways and we have made cost-of-living adjustments to the price of the book for customers in Bangladesh. Purchase the book at bd.feldroy.com. 

I'm in South America, can I buy the book with EBANX?

Yes! We now support payments with EBANX for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Residents of those countries can pay in their own currency as well as in installments (pay a portion of the total cost each month). The details of how this works depend on the country.

If you are a resident of those countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru), choose EBANX as an option during checkout. 

I'm in Mexico, can I buy the book with EBANX?

Yes! We now support payments with EBANX for Mexico. Residents of Mexico can pay in pesos as well as in installments (pay a portion of the total cost each month).

Choose EBANX as an option during checkout. 

I'm in Colombia, can I buy the book with EBANX?

Not yet. We're still in the midst of paperwork to get set up with EBANX for Colombia residents.

What is Two Scoops of Django?

It's the book to get after you finish the Django Crash Course! 

Who are the authors?

Daniel and Audrey Feldroy (formerly Roy Greenfeld) are long-time authors. They are also experienced software engineers each with decades of programming experience at MIT, NASA, Microsoft, SharpCast, and more. In addition to writing Django Crash Course, they created: