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DjangoGirls tutorial correction notes by the DjangoGirlsIE coaches. Comment with which issues you are working on PRs for.
PythonAnywhere part should say to click "follow django girls tutorial"
References to other tutorials (Girl Geek Carrots, etc) appear to some beginners as links that should be followed. These should be made into bibliographical references to things at the bottom of the page rather than highlighted blocks.
The installation chapter windows section references 'previous chapters', but is the first chapter in the tutorial.
The installation chapter instructs on command-line operations, which occurs before Chapter 3, the command-line
The Python installation for windows and OSX instructions instruct students to go to https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-343/, which has a confusing list of Python versions. It should direct to https://www.python.org/downloads/.
explain what != means
Section 11:
runserver
Doesn't say to stop and start runserver again in the part where you createsuperuser.
3.4/3.5 - need to pin the Python version
1.8/1.9 - need to pin the Django version
consistency between type of virtualenv
Python-bundled venv locally, PyPI version of virtualenv on PythonAnywhere
Blog URL:
First, you're asked to modify blog/urls.py to add the blog route
Then you're asked to create blog/urls.py
Swap order?
git add -A
Explained in Section 15
We use it for the first time in Section 12
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