Learn Django in 4 hours - a fast track tutorial

This is the public course material for a fast track django course. You will create a fully blown event website using the "Django" framework. The tutorial is seperated in 4 one hour units - so you don't need much time to get started.

The course boils down the topic to it's essentials - you will not be bored with "historical facts" about python or any long running installation routines or useless "Hello World" programs.

We will get you started right away and let you create something awesome yourself !!!

Check the course on http://slash4.net/blog/learn-django-in-4-hours

In this course you are going to build your own event website - in just 4 hours. You will use an open source template to make it look professional.

Everything will be in the cloud - even your editor will be in the cloud. So you can start coding and creating your new project right away ...

Here is a small excerpt from the course:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gan4b-ws9LKPhQ7EAQSSt5QXf8Snxe5aYtxLLllvNIQ/embed?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000

#Django Model

The Django model is the “heart” of your Django application. It represents your data in a very clean and clear way. From this model, Django can automatically create your database and a powerful admin GUI that can handle all sorts of insert, update and delete actions.

Let’s take a simple example. Imagine you want to build an “Employee Database” for your company. The requirements are:

• It should have an online Web GUI to enter new employees, update existing ones, delete ones leaving the company and create lists of all employes.
• It should have a user and session management (you have to login to enter new employees).
• It should have complex search functions (searching, filtering, ordering etc.).
• It should sanitize all input parameters for valid type and length and implement best security practices.
• An employee has a name, an email, gender, job title, salary and a birthdate.

How long does it take to build this application - including Database design, web frontend etc.? Days? Hours? Minutes?

With Django - in this very simple example - we are talking about minutes. All you have to do is to define your model - and the rest comes for free ...

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Check out the full tutorial on http://slash4.net/learn-django/