Advanced Django Training
This Advanced Django course deepens your understanding of Django with advanced concepts, hands-on exercises, and real-world examples to refine your web development skills.
Course Description
About this Course
Course Outline
- Messages Framework
- Message Framework
- Adding Messages (Exercise)
- Using SuccessMessageMixin (Exercise)
- Adding Success Messages to the Joke Views (Exercise)
- Adding a Success Message to JokeDeleteView (Exercise)
- Media Files
- Media File Basics
- Adding Media Settings (Exercise)
- Uploading a Resume (Exercise)
- Checking File Type (Exercise)
- Keeping Resume Files Private (Exercise)
- Adding an ImageField to the Model (Exercise)
- Displaying the Avatar (Exercise)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Setting Up Amazon S3 (Exercise)
- Static Settings in Development (Exercise)
- Making Queries, Ajax, and View Functions
- Useful Prerequisites
- Managers and QuerySets
- Indexing and Slicing QuerySets
- Checking for Existence
- Creating, Updating, and Saving Model Instances
- QuerySet Methods that Don’t Return QuerySets
- One-to-Many Relationships
- Many-to-Many Relationships
- Spanning Relationships
- Joke Voting
- Adding a JokeVote Model (Exercise)
- Registering the JokeVote Model (Exercise)
- Adding Properties to the Joke Model (Exercise)
- Rating Jokes Using Ajax (Exercise)
- Adding a vote() View Function (Exercise)
- Updating the URLConf (Exercise)
- Updating the Templates (Exercise)
- Model Constraints
- Letting JavaScript Know if the User is Logged In
- Pagination and Ordering
- Fixtures
- Loading Data from a Fixture (Exercise)
- Pagination (Exercise)
- Ordering (Exercise)
- Advanced Querying and Search
- Field Lookups
- Q Objects
- Filtering Results by Category, Tag, or Creator (Exercise)
- Implementing Search (Exercise)
- Aggregation
- Getting Joke Ratings (Exercise)
- Code Optimization
- Installing and Using the Django Debug Toolbar (Exercise)
- Brief Introduction to Annotation
- Viewing SQL Used in QuerySets
- Deploying your Website to Production
- Where to Host Your Django Site
- Deploying to Heroku (Exercise)
- Customizing Django Admin
- Django Admin Views
- Customizing Titles and Headers (Exercise)
- ModelAdmin Attributes that Affect the List View
- Creating a Custom ModelAdmin Base Class (Exercise)
- Customizing the Django Admin List View (Exercise)
- Lists vs. Tuples
- ModelAdmin Attributes that Affect Forms
- Customizing Django Admin Form Views (Exercise)
- Customizing Fieldsets
- Modifying the CustomUserAdmin Class (Exercise)
- Adding Calculated Read-only Fields
- Adding a Link to the Change Password Form (Exercise)
- Unregistering Models (Exercise)
- Django Admin Groups and Permissions (Exercise)
- Additional Topics
- Additional Learning
- Additional Projects
Duration
3 Days
Required Prerequisites
- Experience with Python as covered in the Introduction to Python and Advanced Python Training.
- Experience with Django as covered in the Introduction to Django course.
Useful Prerequisites
- JavaScript
- SQL
Benefits
- Advanced Concepts: The course covers advanced Django topics like messages framework, media files handling, complex queries, pagination, ordering, advanced search, and customizing Django Admin.
- Hands-on Exercises: Practical exercises and real-world examples throughout the course allow students to apply their knowledge and gain confidence in advanced Django development.
- Ajax and View Functions: Students will learn how to work with Ajax to create dynamic web applications and improve user experience.
- Deployment Strategies: The course teaches students how to deploy their Django websites to production, using platforms like Heroku.
- Customizing Django Admin: Students will learn how to customize the Django Admin interface to better manage their web applications.
- Real-world Applicability: The advanced techniques and concepts taught in this course can be directly applied to real-world Django projects, preparing students for professional web development.
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