These tutorials move at a breakneck pace and fail to reiterate basic steps for beginners, for example instead of saying "go ahead and commit and push," it's a very important educational tool to repeat the commands that execute these two separate steps and explain again their functions.

A big issue with this video series is it fails to specify exactly which versions of the external packages are being used. As I understand it it's a very easy process to use pip to download the exact package versions in this series. I've spent lots of time totally baffled about why things look drastically different on my end only to learn it's because I'm using a newer version of a package. For example, in what version was "schemamigration" introduced in South? It's never mentioned.

I've spent a lot of time doctoring my settings.py file to match the one used in the video and strange error messages persist. For the time being I need to go elsewhere to learn the fundamentals of Django; this series is too advanced for someone just getting started, honestly.