Django Basics Course

When it comes to Python web frameworks, the elephant (pony?) in the room is Django. Let's explore this framework and build the prototype of an e-learning site. We'll look into Django's admin, ORM, migrations, and template system. In the end, you'll have a project you can use to explore even more of the Django world.

What you'll learn

• Django
• Django's project and app structure
• Django's ORM and migrations

  Say Hello to Django

 

Before we can build anything, we need to get Django installed, start our project, and learn some key concepts.

4 steps

• Django?

  1:02

• Installing Django

  1:29

• Starting the Project

  2:18

• Introduction

  5 questions

  What a View!

 

With Django installed and a project started, we'll dive into views, URLs, and how to start an app.

8 steps

• Running the Server

  4:03

• runserver

  1 question

• Hello Django

  3:09

• HttpResponse

  2 objectives

• What Are URLs?

  3:28

• First URL

  2 objectives

• Our First App

  4:26

• What's an App?

  5 questions

  Model Administration

 

We want to be able to hold data in our application so we need to create at least one model. And once we have a model, we're going to want to be able to create instances of it. Django's ORM and Admin to the rescue!

9 steps

• What are Models?

  7:14

• First Model

  3 objectives

• Adding Instances

  6:58

• Models.__str__

  1 objective

• First App View

  7:38

• First app view

  2 objectives

• Django's Admin

  5:39

• Register a model with the admin

  2 objectives

• Creating Instances, using the Shell, and the Admin

  5 questions

  Django Templates

 

No application is complete without some sort of user-facing interface. Let's see how to add and use HTML templates in our Django projects. We'll also explore using CSS assets in our project.

12 steps

• Templates

  9:51

• List template

  1 objective

• Template Inheritance

  4:15

• Override a block

  2 objectives

• Static Assets

  5:26

• Static tag

  2 objectives

• Step by Step

  7:25

• Add a Writer model

  3 objectives

• Add a Detail View

  7:33

• Writer view

  2 objectives

• Ordering and 404s

  5:38

• Migrations and 404s

  5 questions

  Final Details

 

Our app could use another view and a bit more information for each step. We can add those and finally get some things linked up with a handy new tag.

6 steps

• Step Detail View

  5:52

• Article detail view

  3 objectives

• Content Field

  5:06

• Add a field to Article to reference the Writer

  1 objective

• url Tag

  10:35

• URL tag In list template

  2 objectives

  Test Time

 

Good applications work. Great applications work and have tests to prove it. Let's see about testing our models, views, urls, and templates.

8 steps

• Model Tests

  4:16

• Test our Writer model

  2 objectives

• View Tests

  6:26

• Test our article list view

  1 objective

• Template Tests

  4:15

• Test our article detail template

  2 objectives

• Congratulations!

  0:54

• Django TDD

  1 objective