Python Web Development with Django - Jeff Forcier

Using the simple, robust, Python-based Django framework, you can build powerful Web solutions with remarkably few lines of code. In Python Web Development with Django® , three of the world's most experienced Django developers cover all the techniques, tools, and concepts you need to make the most of Django.

The authors teach Django through extensive sample code, all of it supported with line-by-line explanations and images. You'll discover how Django leverages Python's speed and flexibility to help you solve a wide spectrum of Web development problems and learn Django best practices covered nowhere else. You'll build your first Django application in just minutes and deepen your real-world skills through start-to-finish application projects ranging from simple blogging tools to a full-fledged content management system.

Techniques covered in depth include: installing and configuring Django

Utilizing Django's Model-View-Controller (MVC) programming model

Automating the creation of new projects; managing URLs, HTTP request-response, and views

Displaying information and managing user input

Implementing Ajax functionality; using publicly-available code resources posted on the Django pastebin

And more–including advanced techniques presented in no other book.

Introduction

Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Practical Python for Django
Chapter 2: Django for the Impatient: Building a Blog
Chapter 3: Starting Out

Part II:Django in Depth
Chapter 4: Defining and Using Models
Chapter 5: URLs, HTTP Mechanisms, and Views
Chapter 6: Templates and Form Processing

Part III: Django Applications by Example
Chapter 7: Photo Gallery
Chapter 8: Content Management System
Chapter 9: Liveblog
Chapter 10: Pastebin

Part IV: Advanced Django Techniques and Features
Chapter 11: TBD
Chapter 12: TBD

Part V: Appendixes
Appendix A: Command Line Basics
Appendix B: Installing and Running Django
Appendix C: Tools for Practical Django Development
Appendix D: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Django Applications
Appendix E: Django on the Google App Engine
Appendix F: Getting Involved in the Django Project
Appendix G: More Resources

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