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Introduction to Full Stack Web Development with Python and Django (TTPS4860)

Modern Skills for Robust Web Development | Python Essentials, Classes, Django, Views, Querying, Templates, Testing & More

Geared for web developers new to Python, Introduction to Full Stack Web Development with Python and Django is a five-day hands-on course that teaches students how to develop Web applications using the Django framework. As an integral part of our Full Stack Web Developer Boot Camp series, this course teaches you the basics of creating basic applications using the MVC (model-view-controller) design pattern, as well as more advanced topics such as administration, session management, authentication, and automated testing. This comprehensive, practical course provides an in-depth exploration of working with the programming language, not an academic overview of syntax and grammar. Students will immediately be able to use Python to complete tasks in the real world.

Course Topics: This is the high-level list of topics covered in the course. See below for detailed sessions, lessons and labs:

  • The Python Environment
  • Getting Started
  • Flow Control
  • Lists and Tuples
  • Working with Files
  • Dictionaries and Sets
  • Functions
  • Errors and Exception Handling
  • Using Modules
  • Classes
  • Django Architecture
  • Configuring a Project
  • Adding an Application
  • Using the Admin interface
  • Basic Views (AKA Controllers and Templates)
  • Querying the Models
  • Working with Templates
  • Forms
  • Automated Testing
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Who Should Attend?

This introductory-level Python course is geared for experienced web developers new to Python who want to use Python and Django for full stack web development projects.

What You'll Learn

This course is approximately 40% hands-on, combining expert lecture, real-world demonstrations and group discussions with machine-based practical labs and exercises. Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to:

  • Develop full-stack web sites based on content stored in an RDMS
  • Use python data types appropriately
  • Define data models
  • Understand the architecture of a Django-based web site
  • Create Django templates for easy-to-modify views
  • Map views to URLs
  • Take advantage of the built-in Admin interface
  • Provide HTML form processing

If your team requires different topics, additional skills or a custom approach, our team will collaborate with you to adjust the course to focus on your specific learning objectives and goals.

Course Outline

  1. The Python Environment
    • Starting Python
    • Using the interpreter
    • Running a Python script
    • Getting help
    • Editors and IDEs
  2. Variables and values
    • Using variables
    • Built in functions
    • String data
    • Numeric data
    • Converting data types
  3. Basic input and output
    • Writing to the screen
    • String formatting
    • Command line parameters
    • Reading from the keyboard
  4. Flow Control
    • About flow control
    • Conditional expressions (if)
    • Relational and Boolean operators
    • while loops
    • Exiting from loops
  5. Array-like Types
    • About array-like types
    • Lists and list methods
    • Tuples
    • Indexing and slicing
    • Iterating through a sequence
    • Sequence functions, keywords, and operators
    • Basic sorting
    • List comprehensions
  6. Working with Files
    • File I/O overview
    • Opening files
    • Reading/writing files
  7. Dictionaries and Sets
    • About dictionaries
    • Creating and using dictionaries
    • Getting values
    • About sets
    • Creating and using sets
  8. Functions
    • Defining functions
    • Returning values
    • Arguments and parameters
    • Variable Scope
    • Sorting with functions
  9. Errors and Logging
    • Exception overview
    • Using try/catch/else/finally
    • Handling multiple exceptions
    • Logging setup
    • Basic logging
  10. Modules and Packages
    • Creating Modules
    • The import statement
    • Module search path
    • Creating packages
  11. Introduction to Classes
    • About OO programming
    • Defining classes
    • Constructors
    • Properties
    • Instance methods and data
    • Inheritance
  12. Django Architecture
    • Django overview
    • Minimal Django layout
    • Built in flexibility
  13. Getting Started
    • Sites and apps
    • Shared configuration
    • Executing manage.py
    • Starting the project
    • Generating app files
    • App configuration
    • Database setup
    • The development server
  14. Using cookiecutter
    • What is cookiecutter
    • Creating projects with cookiecutter
  15. Creating models
    • Defining models
    • Adding data
    • Related objects
    • SQL Migration
    • Simple model access
  16. The Admin interface
    • Setting up the admin user
    • Using the admin interface
    • Editing data
  17. Querying Models
    • QuerySets
    • Field lookups
    • Chaining filters
    • Slicing QuerySets
    • Related fields
    • Q objects
  18. Views
    • What is a view?
    • HttpResponse
    • URL route configuration
    • Shortcut: get_object_or_404()
  19. Templates
    • About templates
    • Variable lookups
    • The url tag
    • Shortcut: render()
  20. Forms
    • Forms overview
    • GET and POST
    • The Form class
    • Processing the form
    • Widgets
    • Validation
    • Forms in templates
  21. Unit Testing
    • Why create tests?
    • When to create tests
    • Using Django's test framework
    • Using the test client
    • Running tests
    • Checking code coverage

Prerequisites

This introductory-level Python course is geared for experienced web developers new to Python who want to use Python and Django for full stack web development projects.