Curriculum

1 Installation and Introduction to Python

• Install Python. Latest 3.x version of python
• Launch the Python interpreter
• Write basic commands on the interpreter
• Tour of the Python language documentation

2 Variables

• Defining variables
• Dynamic typing
• Data types
• Scope of variables
• Single line, multiple variable creation

3 Functions

• Defining function
• Calling function
• Default arguments
• Calling function with keyword arguments
• Built in functions
• Positional arguments packing and unpacking
• Keyword arguments packing and unpacking
• Lambda functions

4 Selection & Looping statements

• If, if-elif-else branching statements
• ‘If’ comprehensions
• Looping using ‘while’
• Python way of looping using ‘for’
• ‘For’ comprehensions

5 Object oriented programming

• Classes and objects
• __init__ function
• Object attributes and class attributes
• Object methods and class methods
• Composition
• Inheritance
• Abstract classes

6 Modules & Packages

• Creating modules
• Importing from modules
• Importing using aliases
• Organizing modules in packages
• Importing from packages
• Built in modules in Python

7 Exception handling

• Flow of a program when an exception is raised
• Handling exception using try-except
• Building custom exceptions and raising them
• try-except-else
• Using the finally block

8 Collections

• List data type
• List slicing and indexing
• For comprehensions on list for mapping and filtering operations
• Various operations that can be performed on the list object
• Tuple data type and how is it different from the list data type
• When to use tuple and when to use a list
• Tuple slicing and indexing
• For comprehensions on tuples
• Set data type
• Applications of the set data type
• Mathematical set operations like union, intersection; on set data types
• Conversion between various data structures using built in functions
• Dict data type
• When can  a dict data structure be helpful
• Various operations that can be performed on the dict object
• For comprehensions on dict objects

9 Introduction to Django

• Installation using pip
• Creating a virtual environment for better dependency management
• Django admin command to create a new project
• Understanding the project structure of a newly created Django project

10 Routing

• Understanding urls.py and the purpose of it
• Creating urls with names and namespaces
• Building dynamic urls
• Mapping of the urls with the view functions
• Linking the urls of an app in a project with the the root app of the project using ‘include’

11 Templates

• Need for templates
• Django convention of storing templates
• Using conditionals and looping in django templates
• Django convention of storing the static assets like images, css and javascript; and referencing them from the template
• Templates ‘static’ and ‘url’ helpers
• Building master layouts and inheriting from it using ‘block’, ‘extends’
• Rendering templates from view functions using ‘render’ and passing context data to it

12 Model Layer

• What is ORM ?
• Benefits of ORM
• Connecting a django project to a database
• Django migrations
• Visualize business data as django models
• Django model Field and field types
• Relationship between django models – One to One, Many to One, Many to Many
• Saving, updating, deleting, and querying django models
• Writing raw SQL queries for the django models

13 Django Admin

• Creating superusers for accessing the backend admin app
• Registering custom django models with the admin site
• Customizing admin rendering of django models using ModelAdmin, StackedInline, TabularInline
• Customizing Django admin templates look and feel

14 Session Management

• HTTP as a stateless protocol
• Django session management built in app
• Concept of session management and how it internally uses cookies and session id
• Storing attributes in a session and retrieving from the same session
• Destroying a session using ‘flush’

15 Django Forms

• The Django Form class
• Rendering django forms as html
• Built in fields and built in widgets
• Validating django forms
• Building forms for django models
• Handling File uploads

16 Other built in django apps and web development concerns

• Authentication system
• Messages framework
• Emailing system
• Internationalization

17 Security in django apps

• Cross site request forgery protection
• Cryptographic signing

18 REST Web Services

• Web Services and REST
• JSON as the format of data exchange
• Django REST framework