Intro to Django

📅 Today’s topics

• Review HTTP request-response
• Learn about MVC web applications
• Get to know Django!

🎯 Project

For our first Django app, we’ll use the excellent tutorial provided by the Django Girls organization. The assignment repo only contains a README file which you can delete. The tutorial will guide you through creating a Django project; create the project inside this repo.

Django Girls Tutorial

🔖 Resources

Django

• MDN: Django Introduction
• Official Django documentation
• Django Girls Tutorial
• Django Topic Guide (this is a useful table of contents for the Django docs)
• Pretty Printed Django Videos: Videos 1-10 are the ones specific to Django. There are other videos on related topics; they are useful but not relevant to the material we’re covering right now.
• Django Chat Podcast: How to Learn Django
• MDN Django Docs -> See especially the Intro section
• Pipenv documentation

HTTP

• How the web works
• An overview of HTTP

🦉 Code

• Notes - Tour of a Django App
• Notes - Diagram of Django’s structure
• Starting a new Django project