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django series finished! my thoughts

Alright I got it to work, and finished django series!  had a issue ran into and had to add blog/ to the regex contain &P<pk> in order to get my blog posts to dynamically link properly.  Yay.  also hey, not sure when you are done with your neural networks/machine learning series (looks awesome but a little beyond me at this point - trying to get a good grasp of web development before i branch out more) - but the immediate things im looking to integrate in flask (django too i suppose) is a user commenting system, dynamic dashboard, and forums.  After going through both flask and django series, I find flask to be much more user friendly.  I had a nightmare configuring django static files initially and though I understand its more modular, threaded type of architecture as a good benefit for a more complex app with more working parts, flask is still easier to deal with and understand, though I have trouble writing my own code and integrating the functionality I would like, as mentioned above, since customization is a vast field of possibilities.

Heres the checklist I want to be able to integrate, in either flask and / or django, and im sure each framework will have its pros and cons depending on complexity and desired functionality and amount of integrations:

-dynamic user dashboard (have some of that in flask, not very in depth though)
-general CMS (hard to create a custom one, maybe ill look at qokkacms)
-user commenting system for blog
-user forums system
-ecommerce (will use flask paypal for now but would like a more flexible and universal option)
-language internationalization


Anyways I know you wont be able to break all that down for us hungry students.  But maybe the more common functions like commenting and forums could be added to your series.  I want to thank you so much for your amazing teaching and great explanations.  Ive learned so much from you by example and thats how I think programming should be learned as a beginner.  Why reinvent the proverbial brogramming wheel when you can follow the pros who know their stuff.  Your series are literally 10x better than any college course offered these days.  They clog you with theory, tedium, and impracticality and make you start with crappy languages like Java which are dying.  Total waste of time and money.  So glad I chose python, its the best language that suits me by far, easiest to learn and cleanest syntax.  Youve been my college professor in programming, and Im so thankful.  Im building some pretty cool apps, and eventually want full service apps with those features above, which will be valuable to small businesses and individuals.  Starting my online service soon, thanks to you.  I may end up contacting you for paid work to help integrate some of those features, but ill play it by ear.  Until later.   Take care bro.

Fitz