Author reacts to Bad and Great Books: Django 3 By Example

In this video I critique Antonio Melé's effort on the third edition of his beginner's tutorial book, "Django 3 By Example", published by Packt. While I had a few criticisms, in general I liked Antonio's book and gave it a thumb's up. Watch the video for all the details.

Apologies for the lighting issue. The surface of the book reflected light back into the camera.

Links to buy the book where I know Antonio will get paid for each sale (Antonio/Packt, let me know if there's any other link to add):

I was not paid or sponsored by Packt to produce this video, although they did provide the review copy.

If you are an author or publisher and want me react to your Python or JavaScript book, please get in touch with me on LinkedIn.

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My name is Daniel Feldroy, sometimes known as "Daniel Roy Greenfeld" or "pydanny". I've been a professional software developer for over 20 years and am a co-author of Two Scoops of Django and Django Crash Course.

[OfficialPackt]

Thanks, Daniel for this amazing review :)

[sonnybrown]

Thanks dude. I’ll need this and your book soon.

[jezenielzapanta]

This is great! More book reviews please!

[kingofyoutube]

What do you think about "Web Development With Django" by Ben Shaw, Andrew Bird, etc.?

[iconickeyboard]

Hello,
Im reading this book right now and im really confused. Does the book teach you how to write code or does it teach you the concepts of the code. Because the author simply tells us to copy and paste the code without explaining the why.
Thank you

[fire]

great video hope to see more book reviews in the future

[balt]

What do you think of the Django 3 2 1 Takeoff book ? I heard it's pretty good.

[tshiamomotshabi]

This book helped me become a better django programmer

[ajutamang]

can you please review two scops of django 3.x one ?

[aashayamballi]

I love watching your content! Thank you 😊

[casualengineerzombie]

Good watch. Hope to see more book reviews in the future.

[MrRayrenz]

I've finished the first project on this book but never got to finish everything since I got busy with work. I love it along with 2 Scoops of Django.

[gfhoffmann]

Nice video, I have this book and I was searching for some github files of it, and your video came up in the google search. And now I buyed Two Scoops of Django and also Django Crash Course! Nice content man! I really liked that you have an option for Brazilian buyers in your shop to pay in our currency for an affordable price, this motivate me to buy your books! Keep up the good work. Hugs from Brazil!

edit: I was forgetting, if you want some help translating the book for Brazilian Portuguese, I would be glad to help! :)

[douglashall]

I loved to read this book. Learned many things on django/web development from this book.

[mlhaux]

is it worth buying django by example 2?