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MichiganX: Building Web Applications in Django

This second course in Django for Everybody explores data models in Django and how it communicates with a database. This course also explores basic Structured Query Language (SQL) and database modeling and how they work in the Django model.

Building Web Applications in Django
4 weeks
2–4 hours per week
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
Free
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Starts Apr 19
Ends Aug 31

About this course

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In this course, you will learn how Django communicates with a database through model objects. You will explore Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for database access and how Django models implement this pattern. We will review the Object-Oriented (OO) pattern in Python. You will learn basic Structured Query Language (SQL) and database modeling, including one-to-many and many-to-many relationships and how they work in both the SQL and Django models. You will learn how to use the Django console and scripts to work with your application objects interactively.

At a glance

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
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  • Associated skills:Data Modeling, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Django (Web Framework), Database Modeling, Object-Relational Mapping, SQL (Programming Language), Microsoft Access, Python (Programming Language)

What you'll learn

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  • Describe and build a data model in Django

  • Apply Django model query and template tags/code of Django Template Language (DTL)

  • Define Class, Instance, Method

  • Build forms in HTML

This course is part of Django for Everybody XSeries Program

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