Advanced Django: Building a Blog

Code and run Django websites without installing anything! This course is designed for learners who are familiar with Python and basic Django skills (similar to those covered in the Django for Everybody specialization). The modules in this course cover a review of core Django concepts, advanced projects setups, class-based views, and other advanced topics such as proxy models, loggin, caching, and query optimization. To allow for a truly hands-on, self-paced learning experience, this course is video-free. Assignments contain short explanations with images and runnable code examples with suggested edits to explore code examples further, building a deeper understanding by doing. You’ll benefit from instant feedback from a variety of assessment items along the way, gently progressing from quick understanding checks (multiple choice, fill in the blank, and un-scrambling code blocks) to slowly building features, resulting in large coding projects at the end of the course. Course Learning Objectives: Initialize Django Advanced Project Setup and explain the benefits in terms of integration and security Describe different Class-Based Views and their use cases Diagnose and optimize code performance using logging, caching, and query optimization

• Create a Blog
• Welcome to Week 1 of the Advanced Django: Building a Blog course. These assignments cover creating a blog in Django, generic relationships, the Bootstrap HTML framework, filters, tags, and crispy forms. The module ends with graded coding exercises.
• Configure the Blog
• Welcome to Week 2 of the Advanced Django: Building a Blog course. These assignments cover 12 factor apps, configuring Django, logging, security, and hosting. The module ends with graded coding exercises.
• Django Optimization
• Welcome to Week 3 of the Advanced Django: Building a Blog course. These assignments cover increasing performance by caching and optimizing the database. The module ends with graded coding exercises.
• Advanced Django Authentication
• Welcome to Week 4 of the Advanced Django: Building a Blog course. These assignments cover creating a custom user model, Django registration, and Django Allauth. The module ends with graded coding exercises.