Show HN: I wrote a book teaching web app development for non-programmers

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Hey HN, I wrote a book teaching beginner web app development using Django, launching on May 4th (successfully Kickstarted last year.) Website: http://hellowebapp.com Highlights: - Aimed at people who have previous HTML/building websites experience. - Template-first development: see the web app as a website first, before setting up databases and models. - Generic “collection of things” tutorial. Readers are encouraged to create something using this rubric that means something to them (a blog, a directory of people, etc.) Adding creativity will make the material stick better. - Includes Heroku deployment, which was honestly the hardest chapter to write (I ended up creating my own Python package to make it partially easier: https://github.com/hellowebapp/hellowebapp-deploy) - Additional resources are being added to https://github.com/hellowebapp/hellowebapp If anyone has ideas of how to reach people who are getting into webapp stuff (

Published 6 Apr 2015
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