Django Fundamentals

By Reindert-Jan Ekker
This course teaches the basics of web development with the Django framework. You will learn everything you need to become a productive Python web developer.
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Dec 5, 2017
Duration
3h 43m
Table of contents
Introduction
Introduction 1m About Django 3m Django Design Principles 3m Prerequisites 4m The Demo Project 1m Course Overview 1m
Installing Django
Module Overview 1m Before You Start: Versions, Virtualenvs and Terminals 3m Demo: Creating and Activating a Virtual Environment 4m Review: Virtual Environments 2m Demo: Installing Django 2m Review: Installing Django 1m
Starting a Django Project
Module Overview 1m Demo: Starting and Running a Django Project 4m Demo: Opening Your Project in PyCharm 3m Review: Starting and Running a Django Project 1m Demo: Adding a Simple Page 4m Review: Startproject, Views, and URL Mappings 5m
Apps, Models, and Migrations
New Concepts: Apps, Models, Migrations 5m Demo: Running Initial Migrations 3m Demo: Creating an App 2m Demo: Adding Your Own Models 5m Demo: Creating and Running Migrations 3m Demo: Another Migration 3m Review: Apps, Models, Migrations 6m Summary 1m
The Admin Site and the Model API
Module Overview 2m Demo: The Django Admin Site 3m Demo: Django Models and __str__() 2m Demo: Customizing the Admin with a ModelAdmin Class 4m Review: The Admin Interface 3m Demo: The Model API 6m Demo: QuerySets and Laziness 3m Review: The Model API 5m
Templates and Static Content
Module Overview 3m Demo: Django Templates 6m Review: Django Templates 3m Demo: Passing Data from View to Template 2m Demo: Displaying Game Data in a Template 5m Demo: A Custom Model Manager and Q() 4m Review: Templates and Data 5m Demo: Static Content 2m Demo: A Base Layout and Template Inheritance 4m Demo: Top-level Content Folders 4m Review: Static Content and Template Inheritance 4m Module Summary 1m
Forms and Authentication
Module Overview 1m Demo: Reacting to the User's Login Status and Redirecting 4m Demo: Login and Logout Views 9m Review: Authentication 4m Demo: Showing an Invitation Form 7m Forms: General Flow 2m Demo: Handling Form Submit 6m Review: ModelForms, Views, and Validation 5m Demo: Accepting Invitations 6m Review: Named Groups and get_or_404() 2m Demo: Tuning and Styling Forms 3m Summary 1m
Making Moves
Module Overview 1m Demo: A Game Detail Page 4m Demo: Displaying the Game 3m Demo: A Form for Making Moves 3m Demo: Validating the Move Form 6m Demo: Overriding Save() on the Move Class 2m Demo: Template Includes 2m Review 3m Demo: Class Based Views: Showing All Games with ListView 4m Demo: Class Based Views: User Signup with CreateView 1m Module Summary 2m
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Dec 5, 2017
Duration
3h 43m
Description

Django is the most popular and most mature Python web development framework around. It makes it easy to build better Web apps more quickly and with less code. Building web sites with Django is not just smart and efficient, but fun too! In this course, Django Fundamentals, you will learn how to build a complete web application with Django. First, you'll see how to create attractively styled pages using Django templates. Next, you'll learn how to add URL mappings for these pages, and handle user interaction with forms. Finally, to store and manipulate data, Django offers a powerful model API and admin interface, and of course these are covered as well. After finishing the course, you will have a good overview of all the essential parts of Django and how they work together, so that you can go on and build your own websites in Django.

About the author
Reindert-Jan Ekker
About the author

After years of working in software development, Reindert-Jan Ekker has decided to pursue another passion of his: education. He currently works as a college professor of Computer Science in the Netherlands, teaching many subjects like web development, algorithms and data structures and Scrum.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone! My name is Reindert-Jan Ekker, and welcome to my course, Django Fundamentals. I'm a senior developer and educator. And in this course, I'll teach you about Django, the web framework for perfectionists. Django is the most popular web framework for Python. And it's awesome to work with. In this course, we're going to build a web application with Django. And along the way, you will learn about all its major components. We'll cover templates and URL mappings, the Django model API, and the admin site, using HTML forms for user input and validating that input, user authentication and login, and much, much more. By the end of this course, you'll have a firm understanding of all of that and how it works together. And you'll be ready to become a Django developer and create your first website with Django. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn Django with the Django Fundamentals course at Pluralsight.

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