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

Course Objectives

Learning 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

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.

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

Audience

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.

Pre-Requisites

To ensure a smooth learning experience and maximize the benefits of attending this course, you should have the following prerequisite skills

Take Before: Students should have incoming practical skills aligned with those in the course(s) below, or should have attended the following course(s) as a pre-requisite:

• TT4605:  Introduction to HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript (3 days)

Next Steps / Follow-on Courses: We offer a wide variety of follow-on courses for next-level web development, Python, React, React Native, Full Stack and more. Please see our Modern Web Developer / Full Stack Courses & Learning Journey Paths for options based on your specific role and goals. 

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. 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 arameters
• 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

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Course Materials

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