Django

Django is a Python-based free and open-source web framework that follows the model-template-view architectural pattern. Django's primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database-driven websites. The framework emphasizes reusability and "pluggability" of components, less code, low coupling, rapid development, and the principle of don't repeat yourself.

Course Outline:

• Introduction
• 1. What is Django?
• 2. Scope of Django
• 3. Architecture
• 4. Models/Views/Templates
• 5. questions
• Web Framework
• 1. Software designed to develop web application
• 2. Eq: CakePHP, Spring, Django
• 3. Server Side: PHP/Java/Python/Ruby/….
• 4. Client Side: HTML/HTML5/CSS/JavaScript/Jquery/…
• History
• 1. 2003, Django Software Foundation
• 2. 20% market share in silicon valley, Second place after ruby
• 3. Developed with python
• Introduction to Web Framework
• 1. What is a server, HTTP Request and HTTP Response?
• 2. What is a web framework and web application?
• 3. Challenges in developing web application.
• 4. Django overview and installation
• Starting a Django Powered Project
• 1. Django project architecture
• 2. Understanding manage.py, Understanding settings.py, Understanding __init__.py 
• and wsgi.py, Understanding urls.py and Python regular expression
• Starting your First Web Application
• 1.    Django project architecture
• 2.     Understanding admin.py, Understanding models.py, Understanding views.py,
• 3.     Running Django development server
• 4.    Working with JavaScript & CSS files.
• Templates
• Developing Standard Web Template
• 1. Template tags
• 2. Filters in templates
• 3. Template API
• Django Admin
• 1. Activating the Admin interface
• 2. Creating super user for Admin site
• 3. Using the Admin site
• 4. How to use the Admin site
• 5. The django.contrib package
• Models
• 1. The MVC Development Pattern
• 2. Defining Models using Python classes
• 3. Defining Model data fields
• 4. Initializing model using makemigrations
• 5. Running model initialization using migrate
• 6. Registering models in settings.py
• 7. Registering models with Admin site
• Views and URLconfs
• 1. Understanding the view layer
• 2. Requesting a web page via URL
• 3. Rendering web page via view function
• 4. Render HTTPResponse to templates
• 5. Understanding context data and Python dictionary type
• Forms
• 1. Form basics
• 2. GET and POST methods
• 3. Form validation
• 4. Rendering forms
• 5. ModelForm
• Working with Static File
• 1. Creating static repository
• 2. Loading static files
• 3. Adding image file to template
• Advance Models, Views, Forms and Admin
• 1. Understanding model fields in depth, Database function, Model managers
• 2. Django ORM
• 3. Class based views
• 4. File submission
• 5. Making admin more robust
• Extending Templates
• Creating a template library
• Writing custom template filter
• Writing custom templates tags
• Registering the tags
• Setting a variable in the context
• Writing template loader