Introduction to Django

Today, we’ll start learning about Django. To work with this framework that helps us build web applications, we need to know about two other things:

• Poetry
• How the web works

Project

This is a week-long project, due next Monday.

• Django Application: Uptact

Resources

• Julia Evans Networking Zine -> This is a lot of info but for now take a look at the part about HTTP messages.
• How the web works
• An overview of HTTP
• Poetry
• Django documentation
• Django Topic Guide
• MDN Django Docs -> See especially the Intro section
• DB Browser for SQLite -> This is a free and open source GUI (or graphical user interface) for inspecting the structure of and tables in a database. A SQLite database is just a file (this isn’t true of all databases), so you can just open the db.sqlite3 file that’s in your project from within DB Browser for SQLite.

Class Videos

• Morning Access Password: 1w*^013R
• Afternoon Access Password: 0r=x455h