Django 4 for the Impatient

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Learn the core concepts of Python web development with Django over a weekend

What is this book about?

First Paragraph from the Long Description

This book covers the following exciting features: <First 5 What you'll learn points>

Understand and implement Django Apps’ basic structure, including URLs, views, templates, and models
Add bootstrap to improve the aesthetics of the site
Create your own custom pages and have different URLs to route to them
Navigate between pages by adding a header bar to all pages
Work with databases and models

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Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

def main():
    """Run administrative tasks."""
    os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'moviereviews.settings')
    try:
        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
    except ImportError as exc:
        raise ImportError(
            "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
            "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
            "forget to activate a virtual environment?"
        ) from exc
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

Following is what you need for this book: This book is for Python developers at any level of experience with Python programming who want to build full-stack Python web applications using Django. The book is for absolute Django beginners..

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-12).

Software and Hardware List

Chapter	Software required	OS required
1-12	Python 3.8+	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-12	pip	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-12	Visual Studio Code	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-12	Git	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

Errata

Page 64 (Code Snippet 3,line 2): python3 manage.py migrat should be python3 manage.py migrate
Page 64 (Code Snippet 4,line 2):python manage.py migr3te should be python manage.py migrate
Page 2 (line 4):There are other popular frameworks, such as Flash in Python and Express in JavaScript should be There are other popular frameworks, such as Flask in Python and Express in JavaScript
Page 33 (Code Snippet 1): The lines of code <h1>Welcome to the Home Page, {{ name }}</h1> and <h2>This is the full home page</h2> between the <div class="container"> and </div> tags should be removed in order to obtain the output shown in Figure 4.10.
Chapter 7, Page 78 (before running the migrations): Before proceeding with the migration process, you need to modify the "DATABASES" variable in the "moviereviews/settings.py" file. It should look like this:

DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
'NAME': 'moviereviews',
'USER': 'root',
'PASSWORD': '',
}
}

Get to Know the Authors

Greg Lim is a technologist and the author of several books on programming. He has taught programming in tertiary institutions for many years and places a strong emphasis on learning by doing.

Daniel Correa is a researcher, a software developer, and author of programming books. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He is a professor at Universidad EAFIT in Colombia. He is interested in software architectures, frameworks (such as Laravel, Nest, Django, Express, Vue, React, Angular, and many more), web development, and clean code.

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