Python How-To

14 Completing a real project

This chapter covers

• Setting up virtual environments
• Building data models
• Working with a local database
• Building a web app

Chapters 2-12 focused on individual techniques, with considerable cross-referencing of pertinent techniques. When I introduced built-in data types (chapters 2-5), for example, we created functions to perform some repeated work. When I discussed functions (chapters 6 and 7) and classes (chapters 8 and 9), we used built-in data types. From examples in the context of the task management app, you’ve seen that these techniques depend on one another to solve realistic problems. Solving these isolated problems is fun in the sense of learning pertinent techniques. The ultimate purpose of learning these ...