Python Django for Beginners with 2 Practical Projects

Discover Django, an open source Python framework that enables fast, secure, scalable web development with inbuilt authentication, ORM, and PBKDF2 SHA-256 password hashing plus an admin panel.

Learn why Django, built with Python, powers highly scalable web apps with a rich admin interface, out-of-the-box authentication, and a vast open-source community, used by Instagram and YouTube.

Install VS Code across Windows, Linux, and Mac to begin building Django apps. Optionally install Git Bash to run Linux commands, and set your Git identity with name and email.

Create a dedicated virtual environment to isolate your Django project and manage specific package versions. Learn how this isolation prevents package conflicts across Django projects.

Create a dedicated project folder, then build and activate a Python virtual environment to isolate dependencies. Install Django inside this environment and verify it with pip freeze.

Create a Django project with the start project command and run the server. Explore the project structure, including manage.py, mysite, settings.py, urls.py, wsgi.py, asgi.py, and __init__.py.

Explore Django settings by examining base dir, the secret key, and debug behavior for development vs production. See how installed apps, middleware, databases, and templates shape your project.

Understand how Django implements the model-view-template pattern, where models perform database operations, views bridge data to templates, and URLs route requests to the appropriate view.

Create a Django app with a home endpoint, wire URLs to a views function, and return an HTTP response. Run the server and test the page prints hello world.

Render the home.html template by creating a templates folder, loading home.html with render, and configuring settings.py to include the templates directory.

Learn how to implement bootstrap in a Django project via CDN, apply container and other bootstrap classes, and verify responsive, mobile-first components like tables and forms.

Configure and serve Django static files by organizing css and images in a static folder, and load them in templates via the static URL.

Create a Django app as a Python package within a project to modularize features such as authentication, orders, and payments; organize with models.py, views.py, admin.py, and apps.py.

Learn to access the Django admin panel, apply migrations with manage.py migrate, and log in as a super user to manage users and groups via the admin url.

Learn to store data in Django using the sqlite3 database by creating an Employee model in models.py with fields like first name, last name, photo, email, phone, and created_at, updated_at.

Add the employees app to settings, install pillow, then run make migrations and migrate to create the database tables, register the model in admin, and run the server.

Configure django to serve media files during development by creating a media folder, setting media url and root, updating urls.py with static, and adding __str__ to the employee model.

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