[Events] Some feedback from Saturday

[Deborah Nicholson]

Hi all,
I didn't take notes during the tutorial, just paid attention. I though that
part was really good!

Here are notes I took during the afternoon part:

Saturday afternoon
Should probably explain how "cd" "cd.." and and "ls" work, plus tab-complete
and the syntax for opening a file to read in the text editor wouldn't hurt
either

"manage.py: A command-line utility that lets you interact with this Django
project in various ways. You can read all the details about manage.py in
django-admin.py and manage.py. " there doesn't seem to be a django-admin.py?


maybe make commands a different size/font/color eg. run the command python
manage.py runserver.

line numbers or section numbers next to the section you're reading would
help attendees help each other, or even color coded would help volunteers
see from far away  what part folks are on

encourage people to add their own questions and answers to the poll before
pushing to git

from django.conf.urls.defaults import -- this is the top line in the urls.py
file not a thing you add

"detail(request=<HttpRequest object>, '23')" should maybe not be in the
input style box

I didn't have too much idea of what we were trying to do with the views
section, just pasting the things in wasn't totally working and I didn't
haven't any idea what parts were for what.

Raising 404, no idea where this stuff is going

CSRF errors, the documentation or code was perhaps not complete? Danny and I
both had trouble

The vibe of the day was very helpful and positive. I liked working with
people, participants had a great sort of team spirit approach. Instructors
never made people feel like they were asking dumb questions or that learners
had "done it wrong"

In general, the web appp involved alot of cutting and pasting verbatim and
not much customizing.
I felt like it was a good intro to the various tools and how they work
together, but I don't feel like I actually "wrote" much python except when I
added my own questions to the poll which the tutorial didn't actually
suggest we do.

Is there an IRC channel for questions going forward? or soem other place?
Maybe an OpenHatch plug would've been good!
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