Building Your First Django App In Minutes

Conjure up that overdue MVP Using Django, HTML, Material Design, AWS S3

What you'll learn
Become proficient at Django while horning your Python skills
Build a real world Employee management system with Django concepts will assist you in building your own Minimal viable product
learn how to make your apps beautiful with Material Design
Build projects using Django 1.10
Learn how to use Django Channels & Websockets + Redis Queue
Learn How to Deploy to the Cloud
Requirements
Have access to a computer
Have access stable internet connection
Prepare your mind to learn and have fun in the process
Have a copy of sublime text editor installed with anaconda plugin (recommended)
Description
Tinkering with code for the first time can be a bit intimidating for some, with so many frameworks and languages to choose from, settling on the perfect fit is sometimes a challenge. Fear not this does not have to be the case for you, as by starting off with learning Django & Python a highly versatile and readable language you spend less time fiddling with mandate tasks and more on actually getting your application up and running and building a robust system
Building your first Django App in Minutes course is packed with helpful resources that will take you from complete beginner to intermediate Django development within a short span of time. You will acquire the skills needed to make your awesome ideas come to life.
Here's what you'll get
43 lectures and 8 hours of content to Level up your Django skills by Learning Django from scratch with the theme of building an Employee Management System.Explore Django what it is what sets it apart from other web based frameworksGuided Structured material initially covering the fundamentals and the course will gradually bring you up to speed with more advanced topics and concepts while literally holding you by the hand in performing your first deployment.In detailed explanations as the Instructor takes his time to explain concepts and not just wiz through without explaining the details.By the end of the course you will be equipped with the knowledge, to execute an array of programming tasks using Python Django.

Why is it worth learning Django?
Here's what Django brings to the table
Saves you from a ton of headaches when setting up development environmentsEasily move an application across environments or serversDjango has a concept of batteries included thus makes it ideal for building up Minimal Viable Product to large scale solutions in the shortest time frame as opposed f other frameworks.Makes developing a much more pleasant experienceYou won't need expensive hosting to deploy your web applicationsThe average salary for a Django developer in the US is over $100,000 per year this could be you.

What makes this course different than other courses you might find?
This course takes a firm balance in terms of not skimming the details but gives the student explanations on which components or technical solution are the best fit per given scenario.

This Course was designed from proven concepts tested and used in the instructors own applications.

Which will give you the confidence you need to build and deploy your own production ready applications.

This course teaches you what they don’t teach in university schools and bridges the gap by making sense of all of the Django documentation in a simple to understand manners. Learning to code from scratch can be like playing Russian roulette, this course outlines the steps in a sequential manner

Course includes bonus lesson taking a dive into Django channels for realtime web apps (Source code provided. Bootstrap your next realtime startup app)Instructor available for mentorship and guidance via course forums

If you are signing up for this course, then you are automatically enrolled into a “life time course series”. What this means the course will continuously be updated with the latest in Django as well as new modules and concepts will be added to help you boost up your Django skills. We will continue to enhance the theme of EMS and expand on the app.  If that's not enough, I'll be available to answer any questions you might have in the course's forums. 

Overview

Section 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Overview

Lecture 2 What is Django?

Section 2: Postgres & PgAdmin Installation

Lecture 3 Installation

Section 3: Django Installation & Configuration

Lecture 4 pip virtual environment explained

Lecture 5 Installing python vIrtual Environment

Lecture 6 Creating your first Django project

Lecture 7 Django project settings.py explained

Lecture 8 Configuring Django with Postgres SQL Database

Lecture 9 Recap important pip commands

Section 4: Models

Lecture 10 Django models lesson intro

Lecture 11 Django models first approach

Lecture 12 Django model first creating your postgres database

Lecture 13 Django database first approach

Lecture 14 How to fake migrations for Database First Approach

Section 5: Querysets

Lecture 15 Django QuerySets Intro

Lecture 16 Django QuerySets by Example

Section 6: Django Admin

Lecture 17 Django Admin Intro

Lecture 18 How to register django models for your EMS database

Lecture 19 Adding Fields to Django Admin listing Pages

Lecture 20 Customizing Django Admin forms

Lecture 21 How to add custom actions

Lecture 22 Importance of Validation in Software Development

Lecture 23 Leveraging on built in django validation

Lecture 24 Django custom model function validation

Lecture 25 Django custom form validation

Lecture 26 How to Add Custom fitlers

Lecture 27 Django Extended with User View Permissions

Lecture 28 How to make your ems django admin more responsive

Lecture 29 How to change your admin site header

Section 7: Url configurations & Response Views

Lecture 30 Django urls views explained

Lecture 31 Function Based Views

Lecture 32 Function based views with basic form templates

Lecture 33 Class Based Views & Generic Views Debunked

Lecture 34 Basics of python functions *args **kwargs

Section 8: Django Templates

Lecture 35 Introduction to templates for front end EMS

Lecture 36 Make Django Nice Templates and Material Design

Section 9: Forms File upload

Lecture 37 Uploading and displaying Images to Django EMS Admin

Section 10: Django Production Deployment

Lecture 38 Heroku for startups & Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Lecture 39 Heroku signup & CLI/toolbelt installation

Lecture 40 Configure EMS for production deployment

Lecture 41 Deploying your EMS app to Heroku

Section 11: Retrospective

Lecture 42 Conclusion

Section 12: Scaling Django with AWS S3

Lecture 43 Introduction to AWS S3

Lecture 44 Prepping Django S3 backend storage

Lecture 45 A detailed look at AWS S3 Credential Creation and S3 bucket policies

Lecture 46 Django content upload to S3 (part 1)

Lecture 47 Django content upload to S3 (part 2)

Lecture 48 How to resolve django storages s3 boto connection forcibly closed exception

Section 13: Bonus Lessons

Lecture 49 Introduction to Django Channels

Lecture 50 Bonus Lecture: How to add Distributed components to your Django & Python project

Technical founders, novices, complete beginners or even seasoned developers,Anyone who wants to understand the full life cycle of developing web based apps,Anyone who is looking to gain confidence in building web applications,Anyone looking to level up their skills to land the next dream job