Django: Getting Started Course

Django is one of the most popular web frameworks for coding in Python. It includes libraries for: templating HTML content, URL routing, views, a robust Object Relational Model (ORM) for mapping classes to database queries, HTML form management, a built-in administrative tool, and much more. This course teaches you how to build your first Django project and guides you through the key parts of the library.

While building our Django app, you will:

• Set up a new project
• Understand Django's project structure
• How to use the Django database ORM, including: common fields, writing queries, Foreign Keys and related objects, and light-weight migrations
• Create function-based views: the code that responds to the browser
• Turn data to HTML with HTML Templates
• User management: Creating users, managing logins, password resets, and the
• Built-in admin for users
• Data management: Loading / saving database fixtures
• Mapping URLs and URL patters to function-based views with URL routing
• HTML Forms: GET vs POST, submitting data to server, and using the forms library
• Considerations when deploying Django
• Third party libraries: A quick tour of popular libraries and how to install them