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I’ve spent some time with tutorials, now it’s time to move onto generating some of my own code.

I want to build a flashcard application with loads of amazing features, but since I’m pretty new to python and django I’d better start with the basics.

Building on the previous tutorial I want:

• a test page which will display a sentence.
• a series of buttons which rate how well I know each piece of text.
• an algorithm which shows me the best known phrases last.

This doesn’t fit exactly what I want the final product to be but I think it’s better to be writing working code than just reading about doing something more complicated. Practise makes perfect

It’s easy to get an empty shell of a website up and running with django

Now let’s try and add some meat to those digital bones.

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I’ve added some super simple models and edited urls.py so now I can browse to the index of the site and see a message telling me I’m at the index of the site

Programming is so easy.

As long as you don’t want your programs to actually do anything.

I’m going to bed and marking this as beryllium

Will continue tomorrow with a views for a user and counting scores via POST.

And some new content for that affiliate site I started a few days back.

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