Getting Used to Working in Django
Posted on May 3rd, 2022
🗓️ Today’s Topics
Today we continue working on our mental model of Django, understanding what it does and how it does it.
- Django urls & views
- Django templates
- Django models and the database
- Dealing with errors
🎯 Project: Uptact
- Goal for today is Task #2
🔖 Resources
- MDN: Django Introduction
- Official Django documentation
- Django Topic Guide (this is a useful table of contents for the Django docs)
- Pretty Printed Django Videos: Videos 1-10 are the ones specific to Django. There are other videos on related topics; they are useful but not relevant to the material we’re covering right now.
- Django Chat Podcast: How to Learn Django
- MDN Django Docs -> See especially the Intro section
- Pipenv documentation
- Django Debug Toolbar
Databases
- DB Browser for SQLite
- Database Design Tutorial -> This is really an introduction to databases.