Description
Description
Advanced Django is a deep-dive course designed to build on the skills covered in the Introduction to Django course. This hands-on training explores powerful features and best practices used by professional Django developers to build scalable, maintainable, and secure web applications.
Students will work with advanced topics such as complex query handling, pagination, media file management, Ajax integration, deployment, and Django Admin customization. The course combines real-world use cases, guided exercises, and advanced techniques to help learners confidently build and manage sophisticated Django-based applications.
Training Objectives
- Master Advanced Features: Learn to work with Django’s messages framework media file handling advanced query sets and the admin interface.
- Hands-On Practice: Apply what you learn through structured exercises that mirror real development scenarios.
- Ajax and Dynamic UX: Use Ajax with Django views to enhance interactivity and improve user experience.
- Production Deployment: Deploy Django applications using cloud platforms like Heroku.
- Customize Django Admin: Tailor the admin interface for better content and data management.
- Production-Ready Code: Gain skills that translate directly into building optimizing and shipping real-world Django projects.
Course Outline
- Messages Framework<br />
- Working with Django’s message framework<
- Displaying success messages using SuccessMessageMixin<
- Hands-on: Adding feedback to CRUD operations in views<
- Managing Media Files<br />
- Uploading and validating media (e.g., resumes, images)<
- Keeping media private and secure<
- Integrating Amazon S3 for storage<
- Hands-on: Upload and display avatars, configure media settings<
- Advanced Querying and Ajax<br />
- Deep dive into QuerySets, managers, indexing, and slicing<
- One-to-many and many-to-many relationships<
- Using Ajax to enable interactive features (e.g., joke voting system)<
- Hands-on: Build a custom vote system with Ajax and view functions<
- Pagination and Ordering<br />
- Loading fixtures for test data<
- Implementing pagination and dynamic ordering in views<
- Hands-on: Customize queryset ordering and paginate results<
- Advanced Search and Filtering<br />
- Using field lookups, Q objects, and search forms<
- Filtering by category, tag, or user<
- Aggregation and calculated values (e.g., ratings)<
- Hands-on: Build a custom search feature with filter logic<
- Performance Optimization<br />
- Integrating the Django Debug Toolbar<
- Analyzing query performance and SQL<
- Introduction to annotate() and calculated fields<
- Deployment to Production<br />
- Best practices for Django deployment<
- Hosting options and setup steps<
- Hands-on: Deploy a project to Heroku<
- Customizing Django Admin<br />
- Adjusting admin titles, headers, list views, and forms<
- Creating reusable ModelAdmin base classes<
- Displaying calculated fields, modifying fieldsets<
- Managing user permissions and groups<
- Hands-on: Build a polished, customized admin experience<
- Additional Topics<br />
- Continuing learning resources<
- Optional capstone project ideas for post-course development
