This is the first edition of the Web development with Django course in HackBulgaria.

Throughout the course we'll be learning Django fundamentals and we will develop production-ready code.

Versions

We will stick with the latest versions of Python (3.5 / 3.6) and Django (1.10 / 1.11).

Course Program

The duration of the course is 9 weeks including 16 lectures:

• Refreshing Python knowledge
• Basic lifecycle of Django application and it's components - models, views, templates
• Django unit testing
• ORM specifications - relations, inheritance, unique togethers, querysets, statements, F and Q statements
• Django views - request's lifecycle. Middlewares, Request & Responses, Generic Views.
• Django Forms and Django templates - gathering data from users
• Authentication with Django
• Django Rest Framework. Creating APIs
• Introduction to Celery as task runner for async tasks
• Implementing payment providers.
• Deployment of your Django application

Prerequisites

• This course is NOT for beginners - Python experience is required.
• Frontend knowledge (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) is optional. We won't dive into that.

Problems for preparing

In order to prepare yourself (if you need to) for the course, you can solve the following problems, from our last "Programming 101 with Python" course:

• Everything from week01 - small Python functions to warm you up.
• Money in the bank from week11 - this problem is about refactoring an existing codebase in order to make it more secure. SQL is involved.
• Decorators from week10 - a very important Python concept.
• Generators from week12 - another very important Python concept.