Table of Contents
Preface
1
An Introduction to Django
Technical requirements
Scaffolding a Django project and app
Exercise 1.01 – creating a project and app, and starting the development server
Understanding the model-view-template paradigm
Models
Views
Templates
MVT in practice
An introduction to HTTP
Processing a request
Exploring the Django project structure
The myproject directory
Django development server
Django apps
PyCharm setup
Exercise 1.02 – project setup in PyCharm
Introducing Django views
Exploring URL mapping detail
Exercise 1.03 – writing a view and mapping a URL to it
Working with GET, POST, and QueryDict objects
Exercise 1.04 – exploring GET values and QueryDict objects
Exploring Django settings
Referring to Django Settings in ...
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