Introduction to Django

🎯 This week’s topics

• Creating a Django App
  • models
  • views
  • templates
  • urls
  • css

🔖 Assignment for this week and Next

In pairs, work on completing the Django Music assignment, in which you will build a web application in the spirit of iTunes or Spotify. Note that the specs are broken down into bullet points, and its helpful to tackle those one at a time, in order.

References

In addition to the assingment’s README, you have available to you several references, and you can choose how and when you use them. You may also find your own references. These are references I know to be reliable and that students find helpful:

• Rebecca’s videos on creating a Django app for a dance studio and the related code repository.
• DjangoGirls tutorial
• MDN tutorial
• Simple is Better Than Complex blog, esecially Extending the Django User Model

🦉 Notes

• Tour of a Django App
• Django Diagram

🎙 Django Chat podcasts

• What is Django
• How to Learn Django