Python Programming: Create an Digital Marketplace in Django

Start a Django 1.8.6 digital marketplace project by creating a virtual environment, installing Django, configuring gitignore, and previewing GitHub repository setup for source structure and version control.

Learn to run the development server, log in to the Django admin, and manage users as a secure window into the database, with password hashing and admin-based testing.

Explore how Django treats apps as cohesive modules that handle specific tasks, like admin and authentication, and how products and billing apps shape a project.

Define Django models to structure data with title and email fields, enforce max_length, add the app to settings, and run migrations to create the id field.

Master Django migrations by learning how to migrate, make migrations, squash migrations, and handle field changes like adding a sale price and removing a description.

Master creating and updating views for a Django product model using class-based views and model forms. Learn to customize templates, get context data, and a submit button mixin for forms.

Learn how foreign keys relate models in Django, linking products to users and enabling one-to-many, many-to-many, and one-to-one relationships; manage migrations, defaults, and related names for data ownership.

Explore how to use get_absolute_url and reverse in Django to create dynamic, slug-based product detail URLs and connect create views to the product list, using URL names and keyword arguments.

Explore how Django serves static and media files during testing, configure static and media URLs, and use the load static tag with collectstatic to manage assets efficiently.

Implement a Django product download view that serves files as an attachment, uses a file wrapper for large files, and links from the product detail via a dynamic download URL.

Create a Django my products model linked to users and products, migrate and register in admin, then enforce download permissions by checking user's owned products and returning 403 if unauthorized.

Explore reverse relationships in Django by linking tags to products via many-to-many and foreign keys. View related products and thumbnails using dot notation, context data, and custom template tags.

Learn to add and update product tags in Django using a comma-separated field, creating or retrieving tag objects and updating the many-to-many relationship.

Track tag views across products with a lightweight analytics app in Django, using a TagView model (user, tag, count) and get_or_create to increment counts for personalized recommendations.

Build a Django dashboard that recommends products from top viewed tags, filtering by those tags, excluding owned items, and randomizing results when needed.

Learn to implement a purchase confirmation dialog using jQuery UI in a Django marketplace by loading the libraries, creating a modal, and using confirm and cancel buttons.

Refine your Django Ajax workflow by extracting success and error handlers into a reusable request, handle authentication and status codes 401/403, and prepare a checkout Ajax flow.

Turn your purchase confirmation into an ajax request that adds the purchased product to the user's products via a checkout ajax view and product detail ajax call.

Explore building a Django class-based view using a form mixin to apply for a seller account, validate input, and manage post and get flows.

The lecture explains linking products to the seller account in a marketplace, updating the product model, enforcing a seller foreign key, and preparing migrations to relate transactions to seller accounts.

Show the active sale price using a price property and template logic, with safe rendering and red, strikethrough styling, and toggle preorder when no media while enabling vendor pages.

Create a curated products feature in Django by modeling curated items linked to users and products, admin-managed sections, and dynamic home page rendering with active filters.