Introduction to Django

🎯 This week’s topics

• Creating a Django App
  • forms
  • model relationships
  • registration

🔖 Assignment for last week and this week

In pairs, continue 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.

Checklist of Assignment Specs

Your app is complete when a user can:

• See a list of all albums on the homepage
• Create a new album
• See a detail page for one existing album
• Edit an existing album
• Delete an existing album
• See an appealing, understandable layout with some style (css)

🌶 Spicy Options (if above checklist is complete)

• Add an Artist model and create a foreign key on the Album model to associate the two.
• Show the Artist and their other albums on the album detail page, with links to those album detail pages.
• Create an way to mark an album as a favorite. Favorited albums are displayed with a star next to them (how you choose to show this is up to you). A user should be able to click on the star, or a link or button, to mark the album as a favorite.
• Add an option to sort all albums on the list page by title, year, or artist.

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