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Django Features and Libraries

Django Features and Libraries

Name: Django Features and Libraries
Rating: 4.766331658291457 (398 reviews)

This course is part of Django for Everybody Specialization

Instructor: Charles Russell Severance

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7 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

398 reviews

Intermediate level

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Flexible schedule

2 weeks at 10 hours a week

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7 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

398 reviews

Intermediate level

Some related experience required

Flexible schedule

2 weeks at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

95%

Most learners liked this course

What you'll learn

Define Django sessions and how cookies are used to support sessions
Apply built-in login functionality in Django and manage login users in views
Define one-to-many models and demonstrate how to represent links in a database
Create, edit, and delete form flow inside of a generic edit view

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5 assignments

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There are 7 modules in this course

In this course, you will learn how to build Django-based web applications suitable for use by end users. You will learn about cookies, sessions, and authentication processes in Django. You will build navigation into your applications and explore ways to easily improve the look and feel of Django applications. You will begin to develop a simple application to support a classified ads website that will walk you through many of the issues and techniques that you encounter in website development. You will also learn how to move an application from development to production.

Module details

In this lesson you will be presented a specification for a simple application. There is no new material - but you might want to review material to help with this assignment.

What's included

5 videos4 readings1 app item

5 videosTotal 45 minutes

Welcome to the Course2 minutes
URL Routing in Django7 minutes
Django Views6 minutes
Using Templates in Django10 minutes
Fixing Django 5.2 Errors on PythonAnywhere20 minutes

4 readingsTotal 40 minutes

Course Pre-Requisites10 minutes
Course Syllabus10 minutes
Help Us Learn More About You!10 minutes
Dealing with Errors in Django 5.2 Projects on PythonAnywhere10 minutes

1 app itemTotal 60 minutes

Auto-grader: An Application of Your Own60 minutes

We look at the basic structure of a web application and how a web browser interacts with a web server. We explore the Request-Response Cycle that is the basis of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

What's included

10 videos1 reading1 assignment1 app item

10 videosTotal 100 minutes

The 'Big Picture' of a Django Application running on PythonAnywhere17 minutes
Introduction to Dynamic Web Content6 minutes
Network Sockets and Connections7 minutes
HyperText Transfer Protocol16 minutes
Building a Simple Web Browser in Python9 minutes
Building a Simple HTTP Server in Python16 minutes
Walkthrough: Browser Developer Mode10 minutes
Welcome from Guido van Rossum1 minute
Face to Face Office Hours - Bletchley Park6 minutes
Len Kleinrock - The First Two Packets on the Internet13 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Lecture Resources10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

The Request / Response Cycle30 minutes

1 app itemTotal 60 minutes

Exploring the HyperText Transfer Protocol60 minutes

We explore how cookies work in the browser and how to set and read cookies in Django. We then explore how cookies are used to support sessions in Django and how we use sessions in Django.

What's included

3 videos1 reading1 assignment2 app items

Django has a built in capability to create and make use of user accounts. The built-in authentication and authorization system is quite robust. More advanced applications can replace the user model with their own model as long as thy meet the requirements of the rest of Django with respect to the authentication and authorization system.

What's included

4 videos1 reading1 assignment

Forms are the way that web applications present users with pages that areas to be filled in and sent to the server as data. Django has extensive support to simplify how we write code to interact with HTML forms.

What's included

4 videos1 reading1 assignment1 app item

As we design our data models, it is important to follow normal-form and not replicate string data. We do this by using multiple tables and making link between rows of two tables. The one-to-many pattern is one technique to replace data replication using links between rows in different tables.

What's included

6 videos1 reading1 assignment1 app item

6 videosTotal 40 minutes

One-to-Many Models Overview6 minutes
Removing Replication in One-to-Many Models9 minutes
Storing Primary and Foreign Keys in a Database3 minutes
Representing One-To-Many Models in Django10 minutes
Using the Django Shell to Explore One-to-Many Models8 minutes
Face to Face Office Hours: Portland, OR5 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Lecture Resources10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

One to Many30 minutes

1 app itemTotal 60 minutes

Auto-grader: Cats CRUD60 minutes

In this lesson you will be presented with a sample application and you are to replicate its fuctionality. There is no new material - but you might want to review material to help with this assignment.