Django Essential Training

Learn Django essentials hands-on, as this course walks you through building a working system that can create, edit, and list notes per user with an authentication system.

Introduction

• What is Django?
• What you will need to start a Django project

1. Starting Your Django Project

• Creating a new Django project
• Minimum working page
• Creating your first Django template
• Django apps and the concept of modularization

2. Django Built-In User Management

• Creating users in Django
• Django admin: Easily visualizing and creating data
• User authentication in two simple steps

3. How Django Interacts with Databases

• Introduction to ORMs
• Creating your first model
• Using admin for data creation and manipulation
• Using Django shell for creating and querying data

4. Building Dynamic Webpages

• Creating a dynamic template
• Display content of a single note
• Introduction to Django class-based views
• A bit more on class-based views

5. Building a Robust Front End in Django

• Static files in Django
• How to set up a base HTML for every Django template
• Let's add some style

6. Django Forms: Validation Shouldn’t Be Hard

• Create a webpage
• Understanding how Django handles security in POSTs
• Django forms: Powerful validation with minimal work
• Django forms are useful for layout as well!

7. Working with Existing Data

• The U in the CRUD: Updating data
• The D in the CRUD: Deleting data

8. Using Django to Store and Display User-Specific Data

• ForeignKey: How models relate to each other
• Displaying only the logged user data
• Adding a new note after ForeignKey

9. Login, Logout, and Signup Are Simple

• Adding login and logout pages
• Adding a signup page
• Finishing touches

Conclusion

• Continuing on with Django