Introduction to Full Stack Web Development with Python and Django

Course Objectives

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

Need different skills or topics?  If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate.  We offer additional python, scripting, web development, database, analytics and other related topics that may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your needs. Our team will collaborate with you to understand your needs and will target the course to focus on your specific learning objectives and goals.

Course 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.

Follow On Courses:  Our Python tracks include a wide variety of follow-on courses and learning paths for leveraging Python for next-level web development, data science / machine learning, networking, task automation, security and other topics.

Please see the Related Courses tab for specific Pre-Requisite courses, Related Courses or Follow On training options. Our team will be happy to help you with recommendations for next steps in your Learning Journey.

Course Agenda

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We’ll work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.

1. The Python Environment

• Starting Python
• Using the interpreter
• Running a Python script
• Getting help
• 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
• Conditional expressions
• Relational and Boolean operators
• while loops

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

5. Working with Files

• File overview
• The with statement
• Opening a file
• Reading/writing files

6. Dictionaries and Sets

• About dictionaries
• Creating and using dictionaries
• About sets
• Creating and using sets

7. Functions

• Returning values
• Function parameters
• Variable Scope
• Sorting with functions

8. Errors and Exception Handling

• Exception overview
• Using try/catch/else/finally
• Handling multiple exceptions
• Ignoring exceptions

9. Modules and Packages

• Creating Modules
• The import statement
• Module search path
• Creating packages

10. Classes

• About OO programming
• Defining classes
• Constructors
• Properties
• Instance methods and data
• Class/static methods and data
• Inheritance

11. Django Architecture

• Django overview
• Sites and apps
• Shared configuration
• Minimal Django layout
• Built in flexibility

12. Configuring a Project

• Executing manage.py
• Starting the project
• Generating app files
• App configuration
• Database setup
• The development server
• Using cookiecutter

13. Creating models

• Defining models
• Related objects
• SQL Migration
• Simplel model access

14. Login for Nothing and Admin for Free

• Setting up the admin user
• Using the admin interface

15. Views

• What is a view
• HttpResponse
• URL route configuration
• Shortcut: get_object_or_404()
• Class-based views

16. Templates

• About templates
• Variable lookups
• The url tag
• Shortcut: render()

17. Querying Models

• QuerySets
• Field lookups
• Chaining filters
• Slicing QuerySets
• Related fields
• Q objects

18. Advanced Templates Use

• 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

20. Automated Testing

• Why create tests?
• When to create tests
• Using Django's test framework
• Using the test client
• Running tests
• Checking code coverage

Course Materials

Student Materials: Each participant will receive a digital Student Guide and/or Course Notes, code samples, software tutorials, step-by-step written lab instructions (as applicable), diagrams and related reference materials and resource links. Students will also receive the project files (or code, if applicable) and solutions required for the hands-on work.

Hands-On Setup Made Simple! Our dedicated tech team will work with you to ensure our ‘easy-access’ cloud-based course environment, or local installation, is accessible, fully-tested and verified as ready to go well in advance of the course start date, ensuring a smooth start to class and effective learning experience for all participants. In some cases we can also help you install this course locally if preferred. Please inquire for details and options.

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