Django Tutorial: Build Your First App Fast & Free! (Udemy.com)
Enroll in this free step-by-step walkthrough of the official Django tutorial (in python). Additional content included.
Created by: BlueApple Courses
Last updated December 2017
What you will learn
- Know how to build your own Django projects with ease
- Create web applications on a highly powerful, popular, & scalable infrastructure
- Create a mobile-friendly (responsive) site with Twitter Bootstrap
- Setup Applications in your Django Project
- Connect a (MySQL) database to your website
- Design models (database schema) in Django
- Create a URL mapping configuration for your project
- Create custom views
- Leverage templates to separate python logic from website design
- Use generic views to simplify tedious, redundant pages
- Create automated tests that can ensure your site works before publishing
- Add static files (CSS / JS / Images) to make your site look beautiful
How it compares
Against the other 72 rated Udemy courses in Django on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 2% of them
- Reviews227#53 of 73 by number of reviews
- Length2.6 hoursshorter than 87% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2017earlier than 90% of them
Course Description
Come join me as we create our first scalable Django application ... in only 3 hours!
Django is used by some of the largest websites on the internet, including Instagram, Pinterest, and Disqus— serving multiple billion page views, and unique visitors a month on Django stacks.
I've loved working with Django these last couple years and would now like to help you join the club by walking you through the official tutorial!
What this course is not:
I do not cover programming fundamentals or python syntax. You do not need to be an expert by any means but you should be comfortable with the basics of at least one programming language so that we can focus on Django and not programming in general. (You can take this course if you're new to programming but expect to look up some of the basics on your own as this will not be covered.)
I may not be able to look at your code and tell you what's wrong. I will if I can, but keep in mind that I may not be able to spend too much time debugging your code.
If you're looking for advanced topics, you may want to download the source code of this course first and see if you could produce it on your own.
But, if you want to add Django to your tool belt - remember it's used on some of the busiest sites on the net - and you haven't yet taken the official tutorial, you need to download this course this minute.
Stop DELAYING and try Django!
Instructor Details
- 4.1 Rating
227 Reviews
BlueApple Courses
BlueApple offers software courses for entrepreneurs and web developers designed to speed up your understanding of new frameworks and tools. A huge part of learning is figuring out where to find the information that you need and our courses bundle this information into digestible lessons. Time is money, so why make it harder for yourself to learn the fundamentals of anything.
Jacob and Joshua have 10+ years of software experience involving technical consulting, mobile development, web development, and academic research.
In college, they performed software research at some great institutions, including: UCI's Beckman Laser Institute and UCBerkeley's Nuclear Engineering Department.
After graduating, they Co-Founded a funded mobile gaming company where we used Cocos2D, Objective-C, Java & Python to create mobile games on both iPhones and Androids.
Recently, after a two-year stint as a management consultant, they've founded their own company called Boost which runs a scalable platform on Django and AWS.
In their spare time, they love to Kitesurf, Surf, Hike, & Sail
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Reviews
By Joseph Drane on 1/9/2017
Just 2 opinions to make this move a little faster, get end users to use virtualization, like Virtual Box. Then have them use/install vagrant, provide a vagrant file and tell them now do Vagrant up in that directory to get going. Might be worth noting, but maybe not. Other issue is that I ran into an error where python said it could not find module pymysql, so I had to pip install pymysql. I personally would like to see this setup on Ubuntu.
By Chris gimenez on 10/18/2016
I like the course in general. And it is nice amount of material. It is a bit fast, meaning I need to keep pausing the video, to be able to copy in code, or work at the same time. That makes it a bit harder to follow
By Geek A&Z on 7/30/2016
I was gone through 30% of the course , I usually try to rate after the end of the course, but honestly I tired to finished it but could not. 1- It was not engaging 2- The lectures do not go step by step in terms of explaining the concepts. The lecturer says in a fast mode then moves to the code....
By Franck Doisneau on 2/24/2016
Very good introduction to django. Had to google a bit to get the necessary soft install on my mac, but after you will be able to build django applications in no time. The instructor goes to the point, explaining with a simple example the foundation of the framework, leaving details (and there are many as django seems to be flexible and powerful) for later depending on your application. Very good english spoken, easy to follow... and free! thank you.
By Frank on 2/8/2016
You can get the same exact information and more if you can read online documentation. The "Polls" application is where everyone starts in learning the introduction to python, its problem is being to specific and does not cover anything other that (Who are you going to vote for? and Vote answer). nothing more. The instructor though does a great job in explaining the content of the tutorial. It is a great starting point for Django learning.
By Siddhant Patel on 1/20/2016
Being a django newbie, I had started the official django tutorial on the djangoproject site, was understanding only about 20% of stuff and just pushing through it(couldn't go further that part 5). And then I came across this; course is well structured, instructor is really clear in communication and there are some additional things too. Overall I could absorb almost all of the content(with some amount of googling of course). Ready for something more complex :) PS-The generic views part could be improved
By Rad ANIBA on 12/13/2015
I think the author went straight to the most important concepts of Django, the only thing I think should be reworked is the Generic views section, it was very fast and no explanations were given about the benefits of using them Other than that, its a cool introduction to Django
By Gordon Lucas on 11/15/2015
I really can't recommend this course for anyone using x64 Windows 10 - the dev environment is next to impossible to get running the way the instructor suggests. The commands error out and Visual Studio versions need to be installed with the right order and settings. The MYSQL connector doesn't install with the latest Python and everything goes wrong from there. That said - so far the lectures are great and I'm sure if you're on Linux or Mac you'll have no problems.
By M.Khuram Javed on 9/24/2015
I've followed this course step by step from the start and found it to the point and well explanatory. The instructor has done his job really well, mind blowing! I think he's a very good instructor and proved to be a good teacher. Thanks for Providing such good Course! I'm really thankful to your sir!
By Michael Mandrescu on 9/22/2015
As an introductory course, it does it's job. Personally, I felt it helped me understand the basics of the django framework. With the exception of a few 'glitches', like some videos being out of order ( it was fixed ) and a small piece of code that was not very well explained in the video, the course was great. I must mention that the question I had was quickly answered, and the instructor is involved with the audience. Overall, good course.
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Overall Score : 82 / 100







