Django Takeoff

Django necessary materials and examples for begginers to start from zero and takeoff to learn more.

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Who is it for?

Everyone wish to start learning django.

Table of contents

• Overview of python

• About web

  • Overview
  • Backend web development
  • Frontend web development

• Virtual environment

  • Overview
  • Why bother using it?

• What is django?

  • Overview
  • Installation
  • Django follows MVC pattern

• Development tools and IDEs

• Starting a django project

  • What is an app?
  • When and why to use apps?
  • Create an app

• Views

  • Overview
  • Django URL scheme
  • Exception handling
  • Decorators

• Templates

  • Overview
  • Views and templates.
  • Django template system.
  • Variables and filters.

• Models

  • Overview
  • Fields
  • Migration
  • Queries and filters

• Forms

  • Overview
  • Validation

• Authentication and security

  • Django authentication system
  • CSRF protection

• Django admin site

  • Overview
  • Customize

• Djagno Unit testing

  • What is testing?
  • Waste of time?

• Django and RESTfull web development

• LONG ROAD AHEAD

Overview of python

Necessary materials to know

• python uses no semicolon and braces but intendation
• defining variables
• if, for, while syntax
• list, map, tuples usage
• functions declaration
• classes declaration
• Exception handling
• import statement
• python package manager

Virtual Environment

Overview

By default, installing packages and tools with python package manager will install it in global site-package directory, the whole system, this will be a problem soon enough so we use some tools called Virtual Environment tools.

A Virtual Environment is a tool to keep the dependencies required by different projects in separate places, by creating virtual Python environments for them. It solves the “Project X depends on version 1.x but, Project Y needs 4.x” dilemma, and keeps your global site-packages directory clean and manageable.

Python has a virtual environment tool called virtualenv.

Why bother using it?

Projects Dependencies become more and more complicated over time.

You may not feel needing a Virtual Environment tool at the first but over time, the bigger projects get and the more projects you involve in, it will feel like hell managing dependencies of projects.

A lot of these problems can be solved with a proper Virtual Environment tool like virtualenv.