Django

Course Overview

Course Curriculum

Week 1: Introduction to Django

What is Django
HTTP request and response
Django Model View Template (MVT) architecture
Django installation
Virtual environment setup
Starting your first Django Project

Week 2: Django App Architecture

Week 3: Django Models

Understanding the Database tier of a web application
Defining Django Models
Understanding Model Fields & Options
Importance of __str__() method
Creating a Django Model
Django make migrations and migrate
Django model relationships
Changing the Database Engine

Week 4: Django Admin and URL Patterns

Enabling the Admin Interface
Creating Admin Super User
Creating other Users and Groups
Add, Change, View, Delete permissions
Register Model with Admin
Model Admin and Admin Options
Django project urls.py and app urls.py
Django url patterns and path
Django Template View
Django URL patterns

Week 5: Django Views and ORM & Query Sets

Simple Generic Views
Using Django Http Response object
Understanding render() object
Using redirect()
Other Generic Views
Class-based views
Understanding Django ORM
Django Query set API
Methods that return new QuerySets: all(), filter(), order_by(), distinct(), values(), values_list()
Methods that do not return new QuerySets: get(), count(), create(), update(), delete()
Two or more QuerySets: union(), intersection(), difference(), AND(&), OR(|), Q objects
Field lookups: exact, iexact, contains, in, gt, gte, lt, lte, startswith, endswith, range

Week 6: Django Forms and Users & Auth

Understanding Django Forms
ModelForm Class
Form validation
HTML forms
Select field and dependent dropdown fields in Django forms
File field & Image fields in forms
Date, Time and Duration Field in Django forms
Django Users and Groups
Django Authorizations: add, change, view, delete
Django Authentication, login, and logout
Create a Django User Registration app

Week 7: Django Templates & Static Files

Week 8: Django Tests & Exceptions

Week 9: Django Security & Web Application Tools

Week 10: Databases and Django Rest API Framework

CRUD Operations in Sqlite3, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Introduction to Rest API
Working with JSON files
Serialization
Routers
Class-based views
API Permissions
Understanding response objects and headers
Using CURL
Using Postman
Creating API endpoints in Django web application

Django

Course Overview

Course Curriculum

Week 1: Introduction to Django

What is Django

HTTP request and response

Django Model View Template (MVT) architecture

Django installation

Virtual environment setup

Starting your first Django Project

Week 2: Django App Architecture

Django project environment

Understanding settings.py

Starting a new Django app

Django app components

Adding the app to your project

Creating Django Skeleton App

Week 3: Django Models

Understanding the Database tier of a web application

Defining Django Models

Understanding Model Fields & Options

Importance of __str__() method

Creating a Django Model

Django make migrations and migrate

Django model relationships

Changing the Database Engine

Week 4: Django Admin and URL Patterns

Enabling the Admin Interface

Creating Admin Super User

Creating other Users and Groups

Add, Change, View, Delete permissions

Register Model with Admin

Model Admin and Admin Options

Django project urls.py and app urls.py

Django url patterns and path

Django Template View

Django URL patterns

Week 5: Django Views and ORM & Query Sets

Simple Generic Views

Using Django Http Response object

Understanding render() object

Using redirect()

Other Generic Views

Class-based views

Understanding Django ORM

Django Query set API

Methods that return new QuerySets: all(), filter(), order_by(), distinct(), values(), values_list()

Methods that do not return new QuerySets: get(), count(), create(), update(), delete()

Two or more QuerySets: union(), intersection(), difference(), AND(&), OR(|), Q objects

Field lookups: exact, iexact, contains, in, gt, gte, lt, lte, startswith, endswith, range

Week 6: Django Forms and Users & Auth

Understanding Django Forms

ModelForm Class

Form validation

HTML forms

Select field and dependent dropdown fields in Django forms

File field & Image fields in forms

Date, Time and Duration Field in Django forms

Django Users and Groups

Django Authorizations: add, change, view, delete

Django Authentication, login, and logout

Create a Django User Registration app

Week 7: Django Templates & Static Files

Understanding Django App Presentation Layers

Creates templates and static directories

Template tags and filters

Template inheritance

Static files reference: images, CSS, and JavaScript

Week 8: Django Tests & Exceptions

Using Python’s Unit Test library

Writing Django Tests

Debugging

Django Exceptions

Week 9: Django Security & Web Application Tools

Caching

Cookies

Django Emails

Pagination

Reusable Apps

Session

Importance of str() method