Building Web Applications in Django

This course is part of the Django for Everybody Specialization

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Charles Russell Severance

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Django for Everybody SpecializationUniversity of Michigan

About this Course

In this course, you will learn how Django communicates with a database through model objects. You will explore Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for database access and how Django models implement this pattern.  We will review the Object-Oriented (OO) pattern in Python.  You will learn basic Structured Query Language (SQL) and database modeling, including one-to-many and many-to-many relationships and how they work in both the SQL and Django models. You will learn how to use the Django console and scripts to work with your application objects interactively.

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 13 hours to complete

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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

What you will learn

Describe and build a data model in Django

Apply Django model query and template tags/code of Django Template Language (DTL)

Define Class, Instance, Method

Build forms in HTML

Skills you will gain

Django Template LanguageGET & POSTObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Cross-Site Scripting Forgery (CSRF)Django (Web Framework)

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Course 2 of 4 in the

Django for Everybody Specialization

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 13 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Charles Russell Severance

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The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

4 hours to complete

Data Models

This section explores how we define models in Django and then we build the data models and explore the administration interface for our application. Data models are how Django interacts with the underlying database to store and retrieve data.

4 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 61 min), 3 readings, 3 quizzes

8 videos

Welcome to the Course1m

Understanding Model View Controller (MVC) 7m

Django Data Models19m

Django Migrations 7m

Walkthrough: Using a Django Model in the Shell11m

Resetting Your Sqlite3 Database5m

Dr. Chuck Sings with the Jango James band, Ann Arbor, MI3m

Face to Face Office Hours in San Francisco, CA3m

3 readings

Help Us Learn More About You!10m

Course Pre Requisites10m

Lecture Resources10m

2 practice exercises

Django Tutorial Part 230m

Model View Controller30m

Week

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Django Views

Views are the aspect of Django applications that produce the web pages that are shown to our users. Views are one of several core elements of Django applications.

3 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 77 min), 1 reading, 3 quizzes

Week

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Django Generic Views

We review Python Object Orientation and look at the generic views capability within Django. We use generic views by extending Django classes to make a new view class.

2 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 68 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

7 videos

Python Objects (PY4E Chapter 14 Part 1)10m

Python Objects (PY4E Chapter 14 Part 2)8m

Python Objects (PY4E Chapter 14 Part 3)6m

Python Objects (PY4E Chapter 14 Part 4)7m

Django Generic Views16m

Bjarne Stroustrup - The Inventor of C++15m

Face to Face Office Hours, CapeTown, South Africa2m

2 readings

Python OO Lectures from PY4E10m

Lecture Resources10m

2 practice exercises

Object Oriented Python30m

Generic Views30m

Week

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Forms in HTTP and HTML

We cover how GET and POST work, how forms are constructed from HTML, how we protect our applications against Cross-Site Scripting Forgery (CSRF), and how we handle browser refreshes after POST.

3 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 52 min), 3 readings, 3 quizzes

8 videos

Forms, GET, POST, and HTTP8m

Building HTML Forms11m

Forms and Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)5m

CSRF Support in Django9m

The POST Refresh Pattern3m

Implementing POST Redirect in Django8m

Face to Face Office Hours, London, England52s

Face to Face Office Hours Kyoto, Japan4m

3 readings

Lecture Resources10m

Course Feedback10m

Keep Learning with Michigan Online10m

2 practice exercises

Tutorial 430m

Forms and HTML30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM BUILDING WEB APPLICATIONS IN DJANGO

by SLSep 25, 2020

Best django course you can find. The instructor walks you through the course material in the correct pace and the assignments/bonus quizzes help you understand how this framework operates

by ARDec 12, 2020

Great professor, but you cannot get full understanding of Django from the lectures and assignments, gives you good foundation to continue learning Django from other sources

by WWOct 6, 2020

A great introduction course while if the PPT can be a bit more dynamic rather than plain images as some of the wordings on the ppt are too small or too many to read.

by BCAug 26, 2020

Great course. I love python, and I have always wondered how to use it for web development. Charles Severance is a very engaging and knowledgeable instructor.

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About the Django for Everybody Specialization

This specialization introduces Python programmers to building websites using the Django library. Across the four courses, you will learn HTML, CSS, SQL, Django, JavaScript, jQuery, and JSON Web Services. During the course, you will build online websites using Django and those working websites are graded throughout the course. This series is excellent preparation for learning other ways to build web applications using technologies like PHP (Web Applications for Everybody), Flask or Ruby on Rails. This is a great first course in any web development curriculum.

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Building Web Applications in Django