I've been thinking about this for a long time, but I'm wondering how others think.

The main problem I see is that it takes a long time before you get something visible. I'd suggest to restructure it a bit so there are more intermediate results. I'd propose the following (keeping the start the same):

• Your first Django project!
• Django URLs
• Django views – time to create!
• Introduction to HTML
• Deploy!

Now the reader has a basic static blog. One option is to add CSS. I've noticed that most of my mentees like that, but I'm a bit worried that then the reader won't even get to the Django parts. So I'd suggest to then make it dynamic.

• Django models
• Django admin
• Django ORM (Querysets)
• Dynamic data in templates
• Django templates

Now there is a working blog, but it's not very nice. So we're going to fix that.

• CSS – make it pretty
• Template extending

Now there's a solid base. Here it turns into adding additional functionality.

• Extend your application
• Django Forms
• What's next?

Any thoughts on this?