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Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours
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Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours

by Brad Dayley
February 2008
Beginner
528 pages
9h 53m
English
Sams
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Chapter 1. Understanding Django

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

  • What the Django framework is, and why you should use it
  • How Django uses models to define data
  • How Django uses Python functions to build views
  • How Django implements templates
  • Where to configure Django projects
  • How to use the manage.py utility
  • What views are available in the admin interface
  • How to install Django

Designing and implementing websites can be fun and rewarding; however, it can also be stressful and demanding. Django is one of the best frameworks available to quickly develop full-featured production websites. Django is flexible and makes it easy to design a website that can be easily updated and expanded. As soon as you have learned the Django framework, you will be able to ...

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