Full Stack Web Development with Python and Django

Course Outline

1. The Python Environment

· Starting Python

· Using the interpreter

· Running a Python script

· Python scripts on Unix/Windows

· Editors and IDEs

2. Getting Started

· Using variables

· Built in functions

· Strings

· Numbers

· Converting among types

· Writing to the screen

· Command line parameters

3. Flow Control

· About flow control

· White space

· Conditional expressions

· Relational and Boolean operators

· While loops

· Alternate loop exits

4. Lists and Tuples

· About sequences

· Lists and list methods

· Tuples

· Indexing and slicing

· Iterating through a sequence

· Sequence functions, keywords, and operators

· List comprehensions

· Nested sequences

5. Working with Files

· File overview

· The with statement

· Opening a text file

· Reading a text file

· Writing to a text file

· Raw (binary) data

6. Dictionaries and Sets

· About dictionaries

· Creating dictionaries

· Iterating through a dictionary

· About sets

· Creating sets

· Working with sets

7. Functions

· About sequences

· Function parameters

· Global variables

· Global scope

· Returning values

· Sorting data

8. Errors and Exception Handling

· Syntax errors

· Exceptions

· Using try/catch/else/finally

· Handling multiple exceptions

· Ignoring exceptions

9. Using Modules

· The import statement

· Module search path

· Zipped libraries

· Creating Modules

· Function and Module aliases

10. Classes

· About o-o programming

· Defining classes

· Constructors

· Instance methods and data

· Class/static methods and data

· Inheritance

11. Django Architecture

· Sites and apps

· Shared configuration

· Minimal Django layout

· Built in flexibility

12. Configuring a Project

· Executing manage.py

· Starting the project

· Database setup

· The development server

13. Adding an Application

· Generate the application files

· Defining models

· Related objects

· SQL Migration

· App configuration

· Accessing models

14. Login for Nothing and Admin for Free

· Setting up the admin user

· Running the admin site

· Tweaking the admin interface

· Changing the admin index page

15. Basic Views (AKA Controllers)

· What is a view

· HttpResponse

· URL route configuration

· Shortcut: get_object_or_404()

16. Basic Views (AKA Templates)

· About templates

· Django template syntax

· Static files

· Loading templates

· The url tag

· Shortcut: template.render()

17. Querying the Models

· QuerySets

· Field lookups

· Chaining filters

· Slicing QuerySets

· Related fields

· Q objects

18. Working with Templates

· Variable lookups

· Comments

· Inheritance

· Filters

· Escaping HTML

· Custom filters

19. Forms

· Forms overview

· GET and POST

· The Form class

· Processing the form

· Widgets

· Validation

· Forms in templates

· Beyond the basics

20. Automated Testing

· Why create tests?

· When to create tests

· Using Django’s test framework

· Using the test client

· Running tests

· Checking code coverage