Python Programming: Your First Django Web Application

Learn how to leverage Python's leading Web Development Framework to connect with users everywhere.

What you'll learn

Python version 3.10 (or 3.8+)

The fundamentals of Django

Collecting data from users

Rendering HTML templates and documents

Password-protected pages & user-type permissions

Modeling data in Django as it relates to a spreadsheet

Dynamically display content based on stored database data

Requirements

Some Python experience is recommended (such as my 30 Days of Python course)

Description

Building a web application has never been easier thanks to open source. In this course, we're going to go step-by-step building a Django web application. If you've never used Django before, this is the course for you.Django is one of the most popular web frameworks written in the Python programming language. Django and Python are both open source and free to use commercially. This means you don't have to pay a dime to create amazing software and impact people all around the world. Django powers many websites in the world including: Instagram, Pinterest, NASA, Baserow, this website, and so many others.The goal of this course to teach you the fundamentals of Django while also creating a very practical project. Building something real is important because it gives you the context of how, when, and where to use a lot of Django's great features.Django sits right in the middle of creating an app from scratch and using something like Wordpress. This means we have a lot of features we could implement along with a lot of features that just work by default. This makes Django incredibly flexible so that we can go far beyond what a blogging platform offers while being faster than starting from absolute 0.For our User Interface, we're going to learn the fundamentals of Bootstrap. Bootstrap makes our Django project look far more professional in very little time. Not only that, we'll also have a much better user experience by leveraging many of Bootstrap's built-in features.If we were building a house, Django would be the plumbing, the walls, and electricity while Bootstrap is the interior decorator.Here's a few things we'll cover:Django version 4.1 (or even 2.2+)Python version 3.10 (or 3.8+)Bootstrap 5.2+Collecting data from usersRendering HTML templates and documentsPassword-protected pages & user-type permissionsModeling data in Django as it relates to a spreadsheetDynamically display content based on stored database dataMuch more

Overview

Section 1: Welcome

Lecture 1 Welcome

Lecture 2 Walkthrough of what we'll build

Lecture 3 Where to Get Help

Lecture 4 Requirements

Lecture 5 Setup VSCode & Python Virtual Environment

Section 2: Hello World

Lecture 6 Your First Django Project

Lecture 7 Your First View

Lecture 8 Your First URL Path

Section 3: Django Templates

Lecture 9 Render A Django Template

Lecture 10 Template Inheritance

Lecture 11 Template Context

Lecture 12 Bootstrap & Include Tags

Section 4: Forms and Collecting Data in Django

Lecture 13 Your First Django Form

Lecture 14 Validating Data with Django Forms

Lecture 15 Styling Django Forms

Section 5: Django Apps & Models

Lecture 16 Structuring our App Component

Lecture 17 Your First Django Model

Lecture 18 Django Migrations

Lecture 19 Managing Data with the Django Admin

Lecture 20 Saving to a Model in a View

Lecture 21 Model-Based Django Forms

Lecture 22 Making Changes to Models

Section 6: Testing Code

Lecture 23 Your First Automated Django Test

Lecture 24 Testing with Backup Data

Section 7: Rendering Content

Lecture 25 Listing Database Data in a View

Lecture 26 Users & Content

Lecture 27 Object Detail View

Lecture 28 Update Data with Forms

Lecture 29 Django Messages & Bootstrap Alerts

Lecture 30 Bootstrap Columns, Margin, & Padding

Lecture 31 Polish The Landing Page

Section 8: Wrap up

Lecture 32 Thank you and next steps

Beginner Python developers looking to learn how to build web applications,Anyone interested in using Django,Anyone interested in collecting user data using open source software,Entrepreneurs looking to test their ideas with minimal amount of code