Python and Django Full Stack Web Developer Bootcamp (Udemy.com)

This course is a good match for me. I'm a beginner in Django, and I've learned how to set up the application, create URLs and views, and integrate the project with CSS and JavaScript. I like the blog project we created, called Star Social, and I appreciated learning how to debug while you built the app, as well as using django-debug-toolbar. I'm thrilled about my progress and the instructor's way of teaching is wonderful.

Overall this course was very informative, very in-depth and easy to understand. It takes you from the very basics of programming with Python and web technologies, to using Django to create your own web pages. However, once you complete the content and try the two projects, it becomes clear that the course is rather dated, as it uses versions of Bootstrap and Django that use different syntax to the ones available now. As a result, it can become rather confusing. Having said that, the actual learning content of the course was very informative.

Covered all the basics of django And front end components and also touched some of the advanced topics in Django. After taking this course I was able to do anything in django. I made a video blogging website with help of statckoverflow and my django knowledge and also I made a web app for weather by using Apis. After that I took the courses to advance my django Skills like using rest framework. Rest is not included in this course but ITts the basics you require of django. Its filmed on django 1 but I used Django 3 in my time and there was literally no difference except some minor hiccups which is also covered in course notes.

I was able to get a front to back site up and running on PythonAnywhere. So there is a lot of amazing material. However, since the course is old the tech versions are old and it's in the Django part that it becomes a problem. Many frustrating hours spent trying to figure out syntax. Now it seems that the Django_Course_2.xx has corrected syntax! Especially URL mappings, Bootstrap versions, Glyphicon classes, django import modules, etc.

The lecturer is clear and the course is paced well for a total beginner. I've edited this review for those reading who might be doing this course in 2020-06 and beyond - as I am. This course was created about 3 years ago, and I've experienced some frustrations due to MacOS upgrading from Bash to Zsh to run commands in the console/terminal and Django syntax evolving e.g. 'url' being replaced with 'path' in the url mapping files. Bootstrap is referred to often, and that too has evolved since the course creation e.g. a class like 'navbar-link' has become 'nav-link', etc. These small syntax variations will cause frustration for some, but it also forces you to search for and engage with the most current online content regarding HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Bootstrap, and your OS's command line syntax - which can only be a good thing.

Lectures are great, but I wish there were more exercises (I mean tons and tons of exercises, not just a few challenges) to assimilate and solidify our understanding. So much material that you end up forgetting what you saw 2 lectures before, despite the notes. Also, I wish that the few challenges/activities provided used more cumulative material, rather than just the concept taught during the current chapter. That would force the student to re-use earlier concepts that would otherwise be forgotten. For example, by the time we started the Django lessons, I couldn't remember half of the material in JS. Would be cool to have many exercises asking to use html, css, js, dom, python and django all combined together, before actually getting to the clone project.

Mr. Portilla goes through a lot of material and I'm sure it's taken a ton of time for him to put everything together. He teaches a lot of advanced topics which you don't see much of elsewhere and the course starts pretty strong but as you go deeper into the course, a lot of the material seems rushed and the syntax is typed without a clear explanation as to what's going on. Overall it was a good course, but it falls a bit short. I've taken some other courses where there was less material but they were very clearly explained and as a result I do not regret them at all. However, this class could use some work as I feel there were plenty of hours of my time which I had to go back and forth between reading the Django Tutorials, asking in the Q&A and other forums for help on topics that were glossed over. Some materials for example which I really wish were elaborated on include: The use of TabularInLines, Slugs, OneToMany, ManyToMany relationships, etc....

Half of the course is not about Django, but about the web fundamentals such as HTML, CSS, JS, etc, so it might be more beneficial to those without the basics. When I enrolled, I was hoping this course to cover deeply about Django, because I already know the basics. However, even just half of the course, the content is still good enough to help you get you going with the framework. After this course, I think I can start learning from the official Django documentation and from doing projects myself.

I’m so pleased to follow this course because everything is clear and well explained, I have been looking for something like this for so long but I couldn’t find it, but when here at Udemy it was like the end of my search and I’m happy to code along with Jose, please subscribe to this course and you won’t be disappointed! The only problem I had was on the last project, it was had to understand the codes, but what I liked the most about Django is its documentation and it has a big library where you can get pretty much all you need for you site to go off ground!

overall really enjoyed this course, and it explains things about django i would say better than most places ive found. not given the full 5 as felt it could have explained a couple of the more complicated areas a little better, but it did drive me to look in other areas which you have to do anyway. would love to see some of the shopping cart and gateway explanations in this course and a more detailed explanation of hiding the security key when going into production, as you state you will show this during the git parts but then couldnt actually see you did it when you went to python anywhere. Great course though thanks