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Show HN: My Django book, Hello Web App, is now free online

28 points by limedaring ↗ HN
A couple of years ago I wrote Hello Web App (http://hellowebapp.com) to teach beginner Django web app development. It's aimed at non-programmers and designers, and walks folks through building and deploying a basic web app.

I'm working on my third book to teach web design fundamentals to programmers (Hello Web Design: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1868398473/hello-web-design-design-basics-for-non-designers), so I've made Hello Web App free online during the Kickstarter campaign for the new book.

The full Hello Web App tutorial can be accessed here: http://hellowebapp.com/tutorial/intro/

Also, I'm happy to answer any questions about writing and self-publishing books — I've probably made about $20,000 lifetime profit on the two Hello Web App books overall.

Thanks all!

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gf263
I saw you speak at CUSEC, cool stuff!
limedaring
Aw yay! Super proud of that talk, it's my favorite. :)
Eridrus
As a programmer who has a desire to build things that require UI components, but no real desire to learn the intricacies of UI, what I personally want is a cookbook/toolkit that lets me do common things really easily and then make tweaks, not build anything from scratch.

I really liked Bootstrap for this for the web, particularly things like their dashboard templates which gives me a cookie cutter dashboard with minimal effort.

limedaring
I think you'll like Hello Web Design then, since my number one push is for shortcuts and easy guidelines to remember, then teach a bit about the theory and fundamentals (usually taught the opposite way and shortcuts are usually not taught at all).

Check out my article, which gives a little preview of the content: https://medium.com/@limedaring/design-for-non-designers-part...