Full Stack Web Development with Python and Django (TTPS4860) Training

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.

This course is approximately 50% hands-on, combining expert lecture, real-world demonstrations and group discussions with machine-based practical labs and exercises.  Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current "on-the-job" experience into every classroom.  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

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