Django — resources
roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/django
Books
- Django for Beginners (William S. Vincent) — gentle, project-by-project intro that builds real apps.
- Two Scoops of Django (Greenfeld & Roy) — battle-tested best practices and patterns for production.
- Django for APIs (William S. Vincent) — focused guide to building REST APIs with DRF.
- Test-Driven Development with Python (Harry Percival) — TDD using Django, free online.
Courses / practice
- Official Django docs — excellent, comprehensive, and version-pinned.
- Django Girls Tutorial — beginner-friendly, free, hands-on walkthrough.
- Django REST Framework docs — the canonical reference for building APIs.
- MDN Django tutorial — structured server-side intro.