Get Started with Python and Django Fundamentals

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Code Repository

Chapter 2: Quick-Start Windows 10/11 Installation & Setup Guide

Lecture 1: Installing Python 3.9.5

Lecture 2: Installation and User Guide for Visual Studio Code

Lecture 3: Creating Virtual Environments

Chapter 3: Quick-Start MacOS Installation & Setup Guide

Lecture 1: Installing Python 3.9.5

Lecture 2: Installation and User Guide for Visual Studio Code

Lecture 3: Creating Virtual Environments

Chapter 4: Build our first Django Project

Lecture 1: Preparing a new Virtual Environment

Lecture 2: Introducing the Python Package Index

Lecture 3: Installing the Django Framework

Lecture 4: Creating a new Django project

Lecture 5: Creating a new Django application

Lecture 6: Registering a new Django application

Lecture 7: Starting the Django Development Server

Lecture 8: Understanding the Django Request-Response Cycle

Lecture 9: Creating a unique URL pattern

Lecture 10: Writing our first Django view

Lecture 11: Creating a new HTML template

Lecture 12: Relating an HTML template to a view

Lecture 13: Installing a Django application from a requirements.txt file

Chapter 5: Code Comments

Lecture 1: How to write a code comment

Lecture 2: When to use code comments

Lecture 3: Code comment tips

Lecture 4: Introducing PEP8

Lecture 5: PEP8 Python comment compliance

Lecture 6: Introducing the Docstring comment

Lecture 7: Activating the Django admin documentation generator

Chapter 6: Variables

Lecture 1: Understanding Python Variable

Lecture 2: Creating a Variable and assigning values

Lecture 3: Understanding Variable naming conventions

Lecture 4: Outputting a Variable value to a Django template

Lecture 5: Python build-In functions

Lecture 6: Using the Print() built-in function as a Django diagnostic tool

Chapter 7: Data Types

Lecture 1: Understanding data types

Lecture 2: Defining the Specific Data Type

Lecture 3: Introducing Django model data types

Lecture 4: Creating a new Django model

Lecture 5: Updating changes to the database schema

Lecture 6: Creating a new Django admin user

Lecture 7: Registering a new Django model to the admin site

Lecture 8: Adding data to a model within the Django admin site

Chapter 8: Python Lists

Lecture 1: Introducing the list data structure

Lecture 2: Ordering the elements of a list

Lecture 3: Understanding and working with the list index

Lecture 4: Adding elements to a list

Lecture 5: Remove elements from a list

Lecture 6: Working with nested lists

Lecture 7: List slicing

Lecture 8: Understanding the Django QuerySet

Lecture 9: Returning all data from a database table

Lecture 10: QuerySet Slicing

Chapter 9: For Loops

Lecture 1: Introducing For Loops

Lecture 2: Looping through a Django queryset

Lecture 3: Outputting the Django QuerySet to a Template

Chapter 10: If Conditional Statements

Lecture 1: Introducing Conditional Statements

Lecture 2: Introducing the if conditional statement

Lecture 3: Logical conditions

Lecture 4: Else condition

Lecture 5: Using elif

Lecture 6: Combining conditions

Lecture 7: Nested If statement

Lecture 8: Building a Django form from a model

Lecture 9: Render a Django Form on a Template

Lecture 10: Saving to a database from a Django form

Lecture 11: Displaying different messages for admin users

Chapter 11: Functions

Lecture 1: Introducing functions

Lecture 2: Function anatomy

Lecture 3: Calling a function

Lecture 4: Return statement

Lecture 5: Writing Django function-based views

Chapter 12: Additional content – Introducing Linters and Formatters

Lecture 1: Introducing Linters and Formatters

Lecture 2: Black

Lecture 3: Flake8

Lecture 4: Microsoft Python Extension