Python Django - The Practical Guide (Udemy.com)
Learn how to build web applications and websites with Python and the Django framework
Created by: Academind by Maximilian Schwarzmüller
Last updated November 2025
Our take
Based on the ratings of 10,703 students and a sample of their written reviews, the syllabus, the course as of November 2025. No course pays to be reviewed.
Max Schwarzmüller's Django course is a 23-hour walk through the framework, from URLs and views through templates, models, relationships, forms, class-based views, file uploads, sessions and deployment. The course project is a blog, built in three stages slotted between the theory sections, so concepts get applied not long after they're explained. It's aimed at people who already know basic Python and some HTML and CSS but have never touched Django. A 4-hour summary section at the end doubles as a quick-start for anyone who wants the short version first.
Reviewers praise the explanations. Several say difficult concepts land in plain language, and one student who had tried three other courses, some with code that didn't match the lessons, found this one clear all the way through. There are complaints, though. There's no authentication section, so login and registration are left to you. Django REST framework isn't covered either. One three-star review calls the back half rushed, with repeated code and a lot of HTML typing, and a couple of students note the videos don't always match the newest Django release despite a November 2025 update.
On value, it's a paid course that sits beside the Python and Django Full Stack Web Developer Bootcamp in our Django list. That one covers the front end as well, going by its title; this one stays on Django itself and includes a 2-hour deployment section that walks through serving static files and user uploads. Anyone who wants the framework explained properly rather than built fast should pick this one, then add a separate auth or REST tutorial afterwards.
Pros
- Three blog project sections sit between the theory blocks, so concepts get applied as the course goes.
- Reviewers say hard concepts are explained in plain language and the course is well organized.
- A 2-hour deployment section covers serving static files and user uploads, not just local dev.
- An optional 4-hour summary track gives the essentials fast, with the full course there for depth.
Cons
- No authentication section: login and registration are left for you to figure out.
- Django REST framework is not covered, so API work needs another course.
- One three-star reviewer calls the later sections rushed, with repeated code and heavy HTML typing.
An easy to follow and well organized course. The instructor is really good at explaining even the difficult concepts in an easy to understand manner.
Marked beginner, but that means beginner to Django. Basic Python plus HTML and CSS are assumed.
What you will learn
- Learn how to use Python for web development with Django
- Build real projects and apply what you learned in a full blog website created in the course
- Choose between the full course or the included course summary to get you started quickly
Course content
17 sections · 257 lectures · 23 hours of video 24 articles
- 1Getting Started 6 free previews8 lectures · 19 min
- 2Course Setup10 lectures · 39 min
- 3URLs & Views14 lectures · 1.5 hours
- 4Templates & Static Files21 lectures · 2.1 hours
- 5Course Project: Building a Blog - The Basics15 lectures · 1.6 hours
- 6Data & Models27 lectures · 2.3 hours
- 7Admin7 lectures · 26 min
- 8Relationships15 lectures · 1.1 hours
- 9Course Project - Building a Blog: Data & Models14 lectures · 56 min
- 10Forms20 lectures · 2.1 hours
- 11Class Views11 lectures · 48 min
- 12File Uploads12 lectures · 47 min
- 13Sessions11 lectures · 28 min
- 14Course Project: Building a Blog - Forms, Files & Sessions17 lectures · 2 hours
- 15Deployment21 lectures · 2 hours
- 16Optional: Django Summary & Quick Introduction32 lectures · 4.1 hours
- 17Bonus2 lectures · 1 min
Who it is for
The instructor says it suits
- Python developers who want to take the next step and dive into web development with Python
- JavaScript developers who want to explore Python for web development
- Everyone interested in learning how to build websites with Python
What you need before you start
- Basic Python and web development knowledge (HTML/ CSS) is required
- NO prior Django experience is required at all
Quality Score
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Overall Score : 94 / 100
Course Description
Python is the most popular programming language of the world - it is versatile, easy to learn and very powerful!
But one of the primary things you can build with Python is a website! You can use Python for web development.
And to make that easier, you would typically use a framework like Django - simply because that allows you to focus on your core business logic and you don't need to re-invent the wheel and implement all the nitty-gritty technical details from scratch.
This course is about Django - the most popular Python web development framework out there!
Django covers all aspects of web development - from handling requests and responses, over rendering dynamic HTML pages with templates, all the way up to making database access and data management easy. It's all baked in and it's all covered in great detail in this course!
This course teaches Django from the ground up - you don't need to know anything about it to get started. Basic Python and web development knowledge is all you need.
We'll start at the absolute basics and understand how to create Django project, how to run them and how to add features - step by step.
In detail, this course covers:
Installing Django
Creating and understanding Django projects
Understanding URLs, views, requests and responses
Working with templates and static files like CSS and images
Working with data and models
Connecting data with relationships (one-to-many, one-to-one, many-to-many)
Querying data with Django's powerful model solution
Adding administration panels to your projects
Handling user input with forms - manually and with Django's built-in form support
Advanced features like class-based views (and when to use them)
Dealing with file uploads and how to serve uploaded files
Working with sessions
In-depth deployment instructions and examples
Different ways of deploying and serving static files and user uploads
And much more!
All those concepts are taught in great depth and backed up by a complete example course project where we build a "Blog website" from the ground up.
Therefore, you'll learn all the important concepts and the theory and you're also going to be able to see it applied to a real project.
Hence, once you completed the course, you'll have a very solid understanding of Django and you'll be able to dive into your own Django projects!
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
10,703 Reviews
Academind by Maximilian Schwarzmüller
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Reviews
By Filipe Coelho Arce on 8/4/2026
I'm learning a lot how to build on my own project. It's not like a begginer learning course where you stop and try yourself, but more like showing you how to use Django to it's best potential, also using best practices and understanding how it all works.
By Earl Miles on 6/28/2026
It is clear the course is well structured and the instructor knows what they're doing. I have no doubt that proper study and practice will result in a firm grasp of Django's capabilities and confidence in it's use in different problem domains.
By Gerardo Dominguez on 4/28/2026
As usual with courses from Max, this one delivered all the necessary knowledge to get started with Django. It might not be up to date with the latest version, but it's still very helpful in learning the fundamentals.
By Soleyman Nasiri on 3/31/2026
Prior to this, I tried three other courses but encountered several issues. Some were too complex for beginners, while others were outdated or had discrepancies between the repository code and the lessons. However, I am now halfway through this course and can confidently say that everything has been clear and seamless.
By Florian Breslich on 2/17/2026
Der Kurs war insgesamt gut. Die Inhalte wurden verständlich sowie sehr anschaulich vermittelt. Inhaltlich war das meiste dabei was man von einem Grundkurs erwartet. Auch die Länge des Kurses war angemessen. Was mir persönlich noch gefehlt hat war ein Kapitel über Login/Authentifizierung. Obwohl es auch wieder eine gute Übung war das am Ende noch ohne Anleitung nur mit der Django-Dokumentation nachzuholen.
By Diego Nunez on 1/30/2026
This is a great course for learning the basics of Django framework plus a small bonus on how to deploy. The only thing I would say is missing is "Auth" i.e. how to create user sign up and login page for the Blog website that you built throughout this course. I believe this is a very important topic that should also have been included, and I see that you include Auth in your Node JS course which is actually harder to implement. Nevertheless, this doesn't stop it from being a 5-star course. The content was excellent, comprehensive and very well explained. I am also taking your other courses: Node JS, and Docker and gaining a lot of knowledge. Thank you Maximilian! P.S.: It was truly golden that you put all the source code in GitHub. This way we don't need to download anything, which is a relief, and we can truly and fully examine the code as we please with the same directory tree structure that is shown throughout the lessons. This is a great way to continue learning after we complete the course because the course's source code serves as a template for my own Django projects.
By Mahdi Khrrousheh on 12/30/2025
great experience and explaining, my suggestion is to include a core library that used in the real life day to day production based project.
By Brandon Lindau on 12/23/2025
I moved over to Udemy because another platform was not rendering in my browser. I like that I am actually writing code as if I was working on my own project. It is more like a real project instead of a toy project in some virtual web space.
By Carlos Antero Monteiro Barbosa on 12/12/2025
The course provided me what I needed: my company uses Django and I was having an hard time to understand the code and the different dynamic references and specific syntax (the double underscore ones, for instance). I just thought that the videos, in default velocity, were to slow to not become sleepy. Good work to Max, overall !
By Anonymized User on 12/6/2025
Yes, it was a great match for me. The explanations were beginner-friendly yet detailed, which helped me understand the fundamentals confidently. The clear guidance throughout the course made the overall learning experience highly effective and seamless.












