University of Michigan

Building Web Applications in Django

This course is part of Django for Everybody Specialization

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12 hours (approximately)
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What you'll learn

  • Describe and build a data model in Django

  • Apply Django model query and template tags/code of Django Template Language (DTL)

  • Define Class, Instance, Method

  • Build forms in HTML

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Flexible schedule
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There are 4 modules in this course

This section explores how we define models in Django and then we build the data models and explore the administration interface for our application. Data models are how Django interacts with the underlying database to store and retrieve data.

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8 videos4 readings2 quizzes1 app item

Views are the aspect of Django applications that produce the web pages that are shown to our users. Views are one of several core elements of Django applications.

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9 videos1 reading2 quizzes1 app item

We review Python Object Orientation and look at the generic views capability within Django. We use generic views by extending Django classes to make a new view class.

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7 videos2 readings2 quizzes

We cover how GET and POST work, how forms are constructed from HTML, how we protect our applications against Cross-Site Scripting Forgery (CSRF), and how we handle browser refreshes after POST.

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8 videos3 readings2 quizzes1 app item

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Charles Russell Severance
University of Michigan
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