Python eCommerce | Build a Django eCommerce Web Application

Name: Python eCommerce | Build a Django eCommerce Web Application
Rating: 3.9 (3020 reviews)

Launch your business by learning to build your own eCommerce app step-by-step.

(3,020 ratings)

76,486 students

Created by Justin Mitchel

Last updated 11/2017

English

English [Auto], Spanish [Auto],

What you'll learn

Learn the ins and outs of Python's popular library Django
Django version 1.11
Payment Integration using Stripe
Email Marketing Integration using Mailchimp
Going Live using the host Heroku
Adding a custom domain and implement HTTPs (using Let's Encrypt)
Learn Bootstrap Version 4 basics (including Django Integration)
jQuery Fast Track Section (learn the basics)
Build a REST API
Build custom analytics
Create a custom user model
Guest Checkout
Integrate Email for notifications
Learning how to use Signals in Django
Build an internal Search Engine
Learn AJAX and Asynchronous Programing with Django and Javascript (jQuery)
Digital item sales and downloads

Requirements

Python Experience is Recommended (check out our 30 Days of Python Course)
A laptop or PC made after 2009 (probably)
Mac, Linux, or Windows 8 & Above

Description

What used to take a big team of people can now be accomplished by you and you alone. It's all thanks to the massive improvements to what programming languages can do. Python is the perfect beginner's starting point because it's simple to understand while being powerful enough for experts to build self-driving cars and AI systems.

This course leverages Python to build a fully functioning eCommerce website and application using the Django framework.

Why Django and why now?

Django is built for speed. Both in functionality and in development time.
Some of the top tech companies are build on Django: Instagram and Pinterest to name a couple.
Django is written in Python and therefore it helps you further master Python.
Huge support from developers around the world. Run into an issue with something in python or Django? A quick google search will likely yield an answer (if not, I'll try to help you out too)

Python is the easiest to start with AND it's made for the pros (such as building Artificial Intelligence)

Why eCommerce? Why not social networking?

I do have course called Tweetme that covers building twitter-like service. That course will show you how to create a social network step-by-step. I do encourage you to take that course but I'll say this course should be taken first for a key reason...

Validation. Proving any project is worth your effort and time can be very challenging. Proving that a social network is viable is also VERY VERY challenging. eCommerce, on the other hand, it's very clear if your project is working: it's either making sales or it's not.

Here's the thing. I want you to build a super successful project and change your life as a result of that project. I believe the only way you can do that is by committing yourself to working through projects from start to finish. This project is the result of everything I've ever done and learned in programming. I show you step-by-step to help you learn the context of how all of this is used. Along the way, I'll explain the WHY behind the HOW.

It's an amazingly exciting time to get into coding/programming/software development/technology! I hope you join me.

Thank you,

Justin

Who this course is for:

Anyone who's ready to build their very own eCommerce web app
Anyone who wants to learn how to build a real, comprehensive project.
Entrepreneurs looking to learn the skills needed to build an online business
Anyone who wants to learn Django and/or advance their Python Knowledge
Anyone who wants to improve their Django skills

Featured review

Cody Z.

36 courses

7 reviews

a year ago

A fantastic course for building an e-commerce site. A side-note, frameworks and api's that this courses uses have gone through several major updates since the course was created. This can create interesting challenges while going through the course, but you can definitely work through them by reading through the api / framework documentation. Again, a great course for learning / building an e-commerce site.

Justin Mitchel

Coding Entrepreneur & Teacher - 568,000+ Students

4.3 Instructor Rating
28,510 Reviews
785,938 Students
31 Courses

It all started with an idea. I wanted freedom... badly. Freedom from work, freedom from boredom, and, most of all, the freedom to choose. This simple idea grew to define me; it made me become an entrepreneur.

As I strived to gain freedom, overtime I realized that with everything that you do you can either (1) convince someone, somehow, to do it with you or (2) figure out how to do it yourself.

Due to a lack of financial resources (and probably the ability to convince people to do high quality work for free), I decided to learn. Then learn some more. Then some more. My path of learning website design started a long time ago. And yes, it was out of need not desire. I believed I needed a website for a company that I started. So I learned how to do it. The company died, my skills lived on... and got better and better.

It took me a while after learning web design (html/css) to actually start learning programming (web application, storing "data", user logins, etc). I tinkered with Wordpress, believing it could be a "user" site, but I was mistaken. Sure there are/were hacks for that, but they were hacks/work-arounds and simply not-what-wordpress-was-indended-to-be. Wordpress is for blogs/content. Plain and simple.

I wanted more. I had a web application idea that I thought would change the way restaurants hire their service staff. I tested it with my basic html/css skills, had great initial results, and found a technical (programmer) cofounder as a result. He was awesome. We were featured on CNN. Things looked great.

Until... cash-flow was a no-flow. Business? I think not. More like an avid hobby. We had the idea for a business just no business. Naturally, my partner had to find a means of income so I was left with the idea on its own.

Remember how I said everything we do has 2 choices. Well I tried the convincing. Now it was time to try the learning. I opted to learn and haven't looked back since. I tried almost every language out there: PHP, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Objective C, C++, Java, Javascript. I was lost.

Then, I tried Python. I was hooked. It was so easy. So simple. So elegant.

Then, I tried Django. Even more hooked. Made from python & made for web applications. It powers Instagram & Pinterest (two of the hottest web apps right now?).

Then, I tried Bootstrap. Simple and easy front-end design (html & css) that is super easy to use, mobile-ready, and overall... incredible.

Python, Django, and Bootstrap are truly changing the way the world builds web applications. I believe it's because of the simplicity to learn, the sheer power behind them, and, most of all, the plethora of resources to aid anyone in building their web projects (from packages to tutorials to q&a sites).

I relaunched my original venture with my new found skills. That wasn't enough. It didn't compel me as it once had. I started imagining all the possibilities of all the ideas I've always wanted to implement. Now I could. Which one to start with? There were so many good ideas...

Then another idea, a new & fresh idea, started brewing. I started to believe in the power of learning these skills. What would it mean if other non-technical entrepreneurs could learn? What would it mean if ideas were executed quickly, revenue models proven, all prior to approaching the highly sought-after programmers? What would it mean if entrepreneurs became coders?

And so. Coding for Entrepreneurs was born.

Here are some bio highlights:

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California

Bestselling instructor on Udemy

Funded creator on Kickstarter

Founder of Coding For Entrepreneurs

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