Videos

• Thursday Morning Video
  • Password: jvs&1%d.
• Thursday Afternoon Video
  • Password: Ph9+umd+

First Django Assignment

Assignment Invitation

Wednesday Videos

• Wednesday Morning Video
  • Password: 441x#bU?
• Wednesday Afternoon Video
  • Password: t8#VXp.7

Additional Links

• Intro to Object Oriented Programming in Python (only the first two videos are available, but they offer a good overview)
• UML Class Diagram Tutorial

Videos

• Tuesday Morning Video
  • Password: Js2Mk=tZ
• Tuesday Afternoon Video
  • Password: c56=Q8w^

Syllabus Part 2, featuring Django

Backend & Django Introduction

• Introduction to Django and Pipenv
  • What are packages? Why do we need a package manager?
  • What is a web application? What is a web application framework?

Django Basics & Tools

• Structure of a Django application
• Django admin site
• Django CLI and development server

Components of Django

• Django Template Language - generate HTML pages
• Django ORM - connects Python to a relational database
• Forms, models, and views - generic application building blocks
• URLconf - sets up the URL structure of the application
• Configuration - options for your application

Basic Topics

• Setting up a project
• Creating applications
• Using the Django admin site
• Creating, and using templates
• Configuring URLS
• Making database queries using the ORM
• Debugging

Intermediate Topics

• Authorization
• Integrating JavaScript
• Class based views

Intermediate General Python Topics Useful for Django

• Understanding third-party packages and the standard library
• Using decorators
• Understanding inheritance in Python
  • Avoiding inheritance pitfalls

Django Assignments

(these are links to the assignment repo for you to preview, not assignment invitations) - note that you are given plenty of time for these projects!

• Django Uptact
• Django Music Collection
• Django Notes App
• Django Project 2

Background Material

• How the Web Works - MDN
• An Overview of HTTP - MDN

Django Resources

• Django Cheatsheet
• Django Tutorial
• Django Documentation
• MDN Django Documentation

Pipenv Resources

• Pipenv Documentation

Today, we’ll take a survey of object-oriented programming to get us ready to take on Django.

Today’s topics

• Object-oriented programming
• Classes and objects

Mystery Word Project review questions

• What’s something I learned in doing this project?
• What’s something I want to understand better or know more about after doing this project?
• What was my biggest accomplishment doing this project?

🐍 Code Break

Creating classes and objects

Project

Word Frequency OO

Resources

• Real Python - Object-Oriented Programming in Python 3
• Python Docs: Classes
• A Guide to Python’s Magic Methods - great reference, but caution! This was written for Python 2, and so a few things may be different in Python 3.

Code Examples

• Code Example: a Python deck of cards