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[{"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463539.3568161, "message": "i'm jacob!", "group_id": 81, "id": 84416}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463568.526773, "message": "very true", "group_id": 81, "id": 84421}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463578.2259769, "message": "and there really is something to be said for a condensed introduction of sorts", "group_id": 81, "id": 84423}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297463160.089818, "user_id": 1}, {"date_created": 1297463394.069731, "user_id": 719}, {"date_created": 1297464500.8851581, "user_id": 177}, {"date_created": 1297558902.7254419, "user_id": 6415}], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463151.6609371, "message": "I'm partial to Pro Django and Pro Python :) #shameless", "group_id": 81, "id": 84386}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463203.274564, "message": "@Gulopine the pro-python chapter (2? 3?) in pro-django is basically my go to for anyone looking to make 'that next step.' we give you much <3 here at mahalo.", "group_id": 81, "id": 84390}, {"user_id": 603, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463201.7684331, "message": "honestly, i've never owned a python book. I did go through dive into python when I first started, but I prefer docs.python.org", "group_id": 81, "id": 84389}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463550.227715, "message": "i figured :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 84418}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297463307.7384329, "user_id": 141}], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463165.7553711, "message": "how about http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vMQXPjBoL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg", "group_id": 81, "id": 84387}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463287.984997, "message": "but prodjango isn't 1000 pages, it can't be good! (yes that's sarcasm)", "group_id": 81, "id": 84393}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463535.1514881, "message": "@jacob we do have both", "group_id": 81, "id": 84415}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463657.9623089, "message": "ah, yeah the mro is wacky fun :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 84431}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463353.8332491, "message": "@convy i enjoyed the first edition, but i haven't read the second one yet", "group_id": 81, "id": 84396}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463369.7362609, "message": "@jacob you do know that i expanded that into a whole book, right? :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 84398}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463511.1585791, "message": "btw, what font is used in your pdf version, I love apress's pdf's for some reason, nice big bold letters.", "group_id": 81, "id": 84412}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463615.8477991, "message": "both helped out when we had to do some hardcore tinkering with the mro to make wacky stuff work.", "group_id": 81, "id": 84429}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463976.942564, "message": "@convy the headings are Helvetica Neue and the body text is Utopia", "group_id": 81, "id": 84460}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463544.805985, "message": "@gulopine^", "group_id": 81, "id": 84417}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463559.713094, "message": "but just that chapter goes a huge way. and then if they're interested, pro python is right there for them", "group_id": 81, "id": 84420}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297463612.7897711, "message": "and it really hammer homes the point that a lot of 'came to python from django' devs that most of the fancy stuff you want to do is a pythong problem, not django", "group_id": 81, "id": 84428}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297469263.4239409, "message": "could be, but i certainly didn't know that when i wrote mine :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 84695}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297468855.5011411, "message": "@jacob @Gulopine (ahh twitter) The book I cowrote (http://withdjango.com) also made the decision early on to have a solid python intro chapter. Feedback about that has been nothing but positive. I think it's a common thing for framework books, though.", "group_id": 81, "id": 84681}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297470270.870075, "message": "I don't think we did a survey or anything -- but now that I know yours did, ours did, and both Rails books I've looked at have a Ruby intro...it feels like a no brainer I guess", "group_id": 81, "id": 84724}, {"user_id": 207, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297470606.8461311, "message": "yeah, it really does make sense", "group_id": 81, "id": 84730}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297479240.5069799, "message": "@Gulopine could I somehow replicate that pdf generation?  how hard is it to get that kind of quality?", "group_id": 81, "id": 85533}, {"user_id": 5009, "stars": [{"date_created": 1305444396.0724981, "user_id": 5350}], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1297527158.322695, "message": "As a beginner I read this book and loved the fact that you end up with an awesome delicious like site at the end. I hope it will get an update http://www.amazon.com/Django-Website-Development-Ayman-Hourieh/dp/1847196780/", "group_id": 81, "id": 87047}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1305331281.0643311, "message": "sf", "group_id": 81, "id": 1048754}, {"user_id": 2571, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1305468912.602669, "message": "One of the best books on python - which is hard, when there is so much documentation online - but this book is great: http://www.dabeaz.com/per.html", "group_id": 81, "id": 1059842}, {"user_id": 26925, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1305622836.2526169, "message": "My favorites are \"Python in a Nutshell\" and \"Practical Django Projects\".", "group_id": 81, "id": 1080389}, {"user_id": 31790, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1305640209.2067671, "message": "Are there any Django 1.3 books in the works?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1083020}, {"user_id": 33202, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1305810944.0430961, "message": "@webmaven I don't know of any, but honestly djangobook (.com) is a great resource and once you understand the concepts there, you won't have much trouble getting up to speed on django 1.3", "group_id": 81, "id": 1110963}, {"user_id": 31715, "stars": [], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1305820568.1850221, "message": "I also really recommend Pro Django. There's nothing else out there like it for moving the next step. I still end up pulling it out a couple times a week to re-read sections. Also I recently got Doug Hellman's \"The Python Standard Library by Example\" and that has really helped, as the docs for parts of the standard library can be a little opaque at times.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1112796}, {"user_id": 26888, "stars": [{"date_created": 1306246254.2464111, "user_id": 2116}], "topic_id": 4414, "date_created": 1305871034.3096399, "message": "Pro Django has helped me to go further with Django / Python on some advanced concepts.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1121111}]