Python and Django Full-Stack Web Development for beginners

Explore the shift from web 1.0 to web 2.0, and how frameworks enable a complete site with HTML, HTTP, client-server roles, URL, and JavaScript-driven interactivity without page refresh.

Configure the application by editing project settings and variables, enable debug during development, enforce secure production settings, use UTC and UTF-8 encodings, and set the site language for internationalization.

Learn how to install Django on Windows, Linux, and macOS using pip, Python scripts, and shell commands, including aliases and setup scripts.

Test our Django application to ensure pages load without errors and basic functionality works as expected. Refactor to respect the MVC model by using templates to separate HTML for flexibility.

Create your first view in a django-based setup, define a view function as a controller in the mvc pattern, configure routing, and return html with utf-8 encoding and comments.

Explore regular expressions from basics to practical use, including dots, character classes, anchors for line boundaries, escaping, and quantifier syntax for precise patterns.

Learn to integrate variables in templates, including conditionals and loops, to render lists and dictionaries into HTML. Practice displaying variables in a template and applying basic template logic.

Explore creating dynamic templates with a simple template language, using template tags, variables, loops, and filters to render flexible HTML in Python and Django full-stack development.

Extend models using a legacy model to share common fields across developer and supervisor, then create three tables for application, supervisor, and development, and manage migrations with a batch file.

Learn to perform migrations with south, including installing the extension and creating the initial schema migration, then applying changes to the database.

Explore how models enable data storage through an object-relational mapping layer, linking views to a database via fields, tables, and migrations, and manage relationships with the administration module.

Learn to build advanced Django queryset queries using field lookups, Q objects, and filters, including greater than, less than, equal, and excluding results across related models.

Update records in the database using two mechanisms: single-record updates and bulk updates. Learn how updating models, such as project and client data, saves changes across descriptions and tasks.

Explore advanced Django forms, customizing data validation and display with widgets and custom error messages. Learn to set initial data and tailor form behavior in creation views.

Learn to add a developer without Django forms by building an HTML template, posting data to a view, and handling fields like name, login, password, and supervisor.

Extend class-based views to customize updates and templates for a task model. Use a meta class, a custom update view, and pagination to display the last executed tasks.

Explore the delete view cbv in Django, implement user confirmation before deleting, and wire up delete functionality for task management models such as Task and related views.