Django Essentials: Build and Deploy Real-World Apps

Name: Django Essentials: Build and Deploy Real-World Apps
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Go from Python basics to a live Django site - models, views, templates, forms, and deployment on Render

Created bySenior Assist Prof Azad Rasul

Last updated 9/2026

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What you'll learn

Build a complete Django web application, from an empty folder to a working site
Structure a project properly - apps, URLs, views, models, templates and migrations
Manage your data through the Django admin and customise it for your own models
Handle user input with forms and cut boilerplate with class-based generic views
Build two real projects: a browser Snake game and a PDF-to-Word converter
Push your project to GitHub and deploy it live on Render so anyone can visit it

Course content

6 sections • 22 lectures • 2h 57m total length

Welcome and Course Overview3:03
Django Essentials teaches you to build, customize, and deploy secure, scalable web apps with Django, featuring hands-on projects like a snake game and PDF to Word converter.
Why Python for Modern Applications?2:47
Discover why Python drives modern AI and ML with a rich ecosystem of libraries like NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, Matplotlib, and Seaborn, enabling rapid prototyping and scalable solutions.
Setting Up Your Django Development Environment4:46
Set up a conda-based Django development environment on Windows, install Python, Django, and packages, verify versions, and troubleshoot permissions and network issues.
Understanding Data Types in Python3:02
Explore Python data types, variables, and containers such as integers, floats, complex numbers, booleans, strings, None type, tuples, lists, sets, dictionaries, and ranges.
Creating and Using Functions in Python2:19
Learn how to define and call Python functions, reuse code blocks, and use arguments to print names like first name, second name, and third name.
Working with Modules in Python2:32
Learn to use Python modules and packages by creating a simple module in the Python shell, importing it, and calling built-in and installed modules such as platform and matplotlib.pyplot.
Import and Clean Datasets in Jupyter Notebook with Pandas12:48
Import and clean datasets in Jupyter notebook using pandas. Import a crop health csv, inspect with head, fill missing values, clip outliers, and convert health to binary for ready data.
Creating Your First Django Project5:08
Create and configure a Django project by understanding its structure and key files such as manage.py, __init__.py, settings.py, urls.py, wsgi.py, asgi.py, then run the development server and troubleshoot issues.
Quiz: Getting Started with Django

Building Your First Django App5:20
Learn to build your first Django app, distinguish it from a project, create it with the startapp command, and link it to a project via settings.
Mapping Views to URLs10:44
Map Django views to urls by configuring the url dispatcher in app and project urls.py, create a view function returning an HTTP response, and test with the development server.
Setting Up a Database6:27
Set up a Django database with the default SQLite backend, configure settings.py, run migrations, and verify the db.sqlite3 file and its tables.
Quiz: Building and Structuring Django Applications

Creating Your Data Models11:24
Explore how Django ORM models define database tables with two models, Question and Choice, linked by a foreign key, and learn migrations, admin registration, and simple model methods for polls.
Exploring the Admin Interface4:59
Learn to use the Django admin interface to manage the web app backend, create a super user, run the server, log in, customize admin.py, and register models for data management.
Adding Views to Your App7:54
Learn to create unlinked Django views, handle requests, query data, and return text, JSON, or HTML responses, then map them in URLs and test via the server.
Adding Templates and Rendering Pages14:47
Create and organize Django templates to separate design from logic, set up template directories, and use url tags for polls' index and detail views.
Quiz: Models, Views and Templates

Implementing Class-Based Generic Views12:47
Master Django generic class-based views, including list and detail views, to write less code, reuse components, and automatically handle data retrieval, rendering, filtering, sorting, and pagination.
Handling User Input with Django Forms16:56
Learn to build a simple poll voting form in Django, collect user input with a post form secured by CSRF, display results, and wire templates, views, and URLs.
Quiz: Advanced Django Features

Building a Real-World Snake Game Project15:01
Develop a real-world snake game as a Django web app by combining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for frontend gameplay and Django views, templates, and static files for backend integration.
Building a PDF to Word Converter Web App13:46
Build a simple django web app to convert pdf to word with a converter app, a file upload form, and a view that extracts text and generates a word document.
Pushing Your Django Project to GitHub9:28
Master a step-by-step workflow to push a Django project to GitHub, from installing git via conda to configuring user details, initializing a repo, and pushing to remote.
Deploying Your Django Project on Render10:08
Learn to deploy a django app on render end-to-end, updating settings, configuring static files and dependencies, and launching a web service with gunicorn.

Requirements

Basic Python - variables, functions and data types; the essentials are revisited early on
A computer with internet access (Windows, macOS or Linux) - every tool used is free
Familiarity with HTML and CSS is helpful but not required
A free GitHub account for the deployment section

Description

Most Django tutorials stop before the part that matters: putting it online.

You can follow a dozen videos, end up with a project running on localhost, and still have nothing you can send anyone. This course takes you all the way - from an empty folder to a Django site deployed on Render with a public URL you can put on your CV.

It starts by grounding the Python you will actually need: data types, functions, modules, and cleaning a dataset with Pandas in Jupyter. Then into Django proper - creating a project, building apps, mapping views to URLs, setting up the database, and writing models. From there you will work with the admin interface, templates, class-based generic views and forms.

The last section is all building. You will make a Snake game that runs in the browser and a PDF-to-Word converter web app, push both to GitHub, and deploy to Render.

What you will build

A browser-based Snake game, built as a Django app
A PDF to Word converter that real people could use
A GitHub repository with your work in it
A live deployment on Render with a public URL

What you get

Short, practical lessons with code you write yourself
A quiz after each core section
Two finished projects for your portfolio, not toy exercises

Before you enrol

You need basic Python - variables, functions and data types - though the early lectures revisit the essentials. HTML and CSS familiarity helps but is not required. Everything used is free, and you will want a GitHub account for the deployment section.

Taught by Dr. Azad Rasul, a geospatial data scientist and Assistant Professor, with over 150,000 students enrolled across his Udemy courses.

Enrol now and finish with a Django site that is actually online.

Who this course is for:

Python programmers who want to move into web development with Django
Aspiring web developers who want a portfolio with deployed, working projects in it
Self-taught coders who can write Python but have never shipped anything to the web
Students and career changers who need finished projects to show employers
Anyone who has followed Django tutorials but never got a project live on the internet

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Getting Started with Django8 lectures • 36min

Building and Structuring Django Applications3 lectures • 23min

Working with Models, Views and Templates4 lectures • 39min

Advanced Django Features2 lectures • 30min

Practical Django Projects and Deployment4 lectures • 48min

Conclusion and Further Learning1 lecture • 2min

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