Mastering Python with Django Training

Curriculum:

Introduction

• An Introduction To Python
• Introductory Remarks About Python
• Strengths and Weaknesses
• A Brief History of Python
• Python Versions
• Installing Python
• Environment Variables
• Executing Python From The Command Line
• IDLE
• Editing Python Files
• Getting Help
• Dynamic Types
• Python Reserved Words
• Naming Conventions
• Language Evolution
• Python Reserved Words and Other Rules
• Documentation
• The String Class
• Variables
• Data types
• Boolean and numeric types
• Strings
• Lists and Tuples
• Sets
• Sequences
• Looping Through Sequences
• Dictionaries
• Bit variables
• Modules
• Reading files
• Some file tests

1.Basic Python Syntax

• Introduction
• Basic Syntax
• Comments
• String Values
• String Operations
• The Format Method
• String Slices
• String Operators
• Numeric Data Types
• Conversions
• Simple Input and Output
• The Print Function

2.Language Components

• Introduction
• Control Flow and Syntax
• Indenting
• The if Statement
• Relational Operators
• Logical Operators
• True or False
• Bit Wise Operators
• The While Loop
• Break and Continue
• The for Loop

3.Collections

• Introduction
• lists
• Tuples
• Sets
• Dictionaries
• Sorting Dictionaries
• Copying Collections
• Summary

4.Functions

• Introduction
• Defining your own Functions
• Parameters
• Function Documentation
• Keyword and Optional Parameters
• Passing Collections to a Function
• Variable Number of Arguments
• Scope
• Functions
• Passing Functions to a Function
• Mapping Functions in a Dictionary
• Lambda
• Closures

5.Modules

• Standard Modules - Sys
• Standard Modules - Math
• Standard Modules - Time
• The Dir Function

6.Exceptions

• Errors
• Run Time Errors
• The Exception Mode
• Exception Hierarchy
• Handling Multiple Exceptions
• Raise
• Assert
• Writing your Own Exception Classes

7.Input And Output

• Introduction
• Data Streams
• Creating Your Own Data Streams
• Access Modes
• Writing Data to a File
• Reading Data from a File
• Additional file Methods
• Using pipes as Data Streams
• Handling IO Exceptions
• Working with Directories
• Metadata
• The pickle Module

8.Classes In Python

• Classes in Python
• Principles of Object Orientation
• Creating Classes
• Instance Methods
• File Organization
• Special Methods
• Class Variables
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Type Identification
• Custom Exception Cases

9.Regular Expressions

• Introduction
• Simple Character Matches
• Special Characters
• Character Classes
• Quantifiers
• The dot character
• Greedy Matches
• Grouping
• Matching at the beginning or end
• Match objects
• Substituting
• Splitting a string
• Compiling regular expressions
• Flags

10.Data Structures

• Range
• List Comprehensions
• Nested List Comprehensions
• Dictionary Comprehensions
• Dictionaries with Compound Values
• Processing Lists in Parallel
• Functions
• Default Parameters
• Variable Arguments
• A dictionary of Dictionaries
• Specialized Sorts
• The Del statement
• Time Functionality
• Using Generators

11.Writing GUIs In Python

• Introduction
• Components and Events
• An Example GUI
• The Root Component
• Adding a Button
• Entry widgets
• Text widgets
• Check Buttons
• Radio Buttons
• List boxes
• Frames
• Menus
• Binding Events to Widgets

12.Python And CGI Scripts

• Introduction
• Html
• Html Forms
• A Guestbook Application
• What can go wrong!
• Html tables
• The CGI Script
• Rendering of The Script

13.The OS Module

• The Environment
• Launching Commands
• Creating a Process
• Directory Commands
• Other Process Methods
• File Information (metadata)
• Miscellaneous OS calls
• Walking through Directories

14.Network Programming

• Introduction
• A Daytime Server
• Clients and Servers
• The Client Program
• The Server Program
• Recap
• An Evaluation Client and Server
• The Server Portion
• A Threaded Server

15.What You Might Not Already Know

• What is an Iterable?
• Creating your own Iterators
• Generators
• The Functions any and all
• Thread Fundamentals
• Synchronization
• Formatting records
• Signals
• The Python Debugger (2.x)
• The with statement
• Data compression

16.Introduction to Django

• Introduction
• Why Django?
• Batteries Included
• Django Principles
• What you Should Already Know
• Course Overview

17.Installing Django

• Intro
• Choosing your Versions
• Installing Pip and Python on Windows
• Demo: Windows Installation
• Installing Pip and Python on Mac OS X
• Demo: OS X Installation
• Installing Pip and Python on Linux
• Demo: Linux Installation
• Virtualenv
• Demo: Virtualenv
• Installing Django
• Summary

18.Starting a Django Project

• Introduction
• Creating a Django Project
• Demo: Creating a Django Project
• The Model-Template-View Pattern
• Demo: Hello, World!
• Mapping URLs
• Demo: URL Mapping
• Django Views
• Demo: Templates
• Summary

19.Models

• Introduction
• Demo: Adding Models
• Django Model Classes
• Manage.py Database Commands
• Demo: The Admin Interface
• The Django Admin Interface
• Demo: The Model API
• Save and Delete
• The Model API
• Database Relations
• Summary

20.Adding a User Home Page

• Introduction
• Demo: Adding Login and Logout Views
• More about URL Mappings
• Demo: A Template for the Home Page
• Authorization with Django
• More about Django Templates
• Demo: Adding the Home View
• URL Mappings for Apps
• Demo: Template Inheritance
• Template Inheritance
• Demo: Login Required
• Demo: Showing Game Data on the Home Page
• Demo: A Custom Manager Class
• The Template Context
• Templates: For and Include Tags
• Summary

21.Forms

• Introduction
• Demo: Adding a HTML Form
• Using Django Forms
• Demo: Adding Stypng to the Form with Crispy-Forms
• Demo: Field Options
• Field Options
• Demo: Showing Invitations in a List
• Demo: Accepting Invitations
• Demo: Named Groups
• Named Groups in URLs
• Summary

22.Odds and Ends

• Introduction
• Class-based Views
• Demo: Class-based Views
• Demo: Adding User Signup
• Generic Views
• Debugging Django
• Demo: The Django Debug Toolbar
• Resources
• Summary