Learning Path: Django: Modern Web Development with Django

Python is the language of choice for millions of developers worldwide, due to its effective learning curve and its vast applications in day–to–day programming. Django is a powerful Python web framework designed to develop web applications quickly, from simple prototypes to large–scale projects. It encourages clean, pragmatic design, and provides developers with a comprehensive set of tools to build scalable web applications. Django’s primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database–driven websites. If you’re interested to build maintainable, scalable, secure web services and applications using the best tools and techniques of Django, then go for this Learning Path.

Packt s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

The highlights of this Learning Path are:

Let s take a quick look at your learning journey. This Learning Path begins by showing you how to build a blog application, before moving on to developing a social image bookmarking website, an online shop, and an e–learning platform. You ll learn how to build a search engine and implement a user activity stream. You ll then create a recommendation engine, an e–commerce coupon system, and a content management system. This Learning Path will also teach you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs, and set up a production environment for your Django projects. You ll learn how to develop RESTful APIs using the Django framework combined with related libraries and tools. You ll delve into the Django framework to build various web services. You ll learn everything you need to successfully develop RESTful API’s with the Django framework such as request handling, URL mapping, serialization, validation, authentication, authorization, and databases. Finally, you ll build a simple e–learning platform, including content management, student registration, and a restful API. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll have an acquired practical knowledge, of how Django works and how to integrate it with other technologies to build powerful web services, applications and RESTful web services.