University of Michigan

Building Web Applications in Django

University of Michigan

Building Web Applications in Django

This course is part of Django for Everybody Specialization

Charles Russell Severance

Instructor: Charles Russell Severance

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Intermediate level
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Flexible schedule
1 week at 10 hours a week
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

785 reviews

Intermediate level
Some related experience required
Flexible schedule
1 week at 10 hours a week
Learn at your own pace
96%
Most learners liked this course

What you'll 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

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Taught in English

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There are 6 modules in this course

We cover the concept of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) in web applications.

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4 videos4 readings1 assignment

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.

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5 videos1 reading1 assignment1 app item

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.

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9 videos1 reading2 assignments1 app item

We review Python Object Orientation and look at the generic views capability within Django.

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6 videos2 readings1 assignment

We use generic views by extending Django classes to make a new view class.

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2 videos1 assignment

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.

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8 videos3 readings2 assignments1 app item

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