Web Development Python

Django Fundamentals

Build Practical Web Applications with Python’s Most Productive Web Framework

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Quick Course Facts
20
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
20
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.8
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Django Fundamentals Course

Django Fundamentals is a practical Web Development course designed to help you build reliable, database-driven websites with Django. You will learn the framework workflow from setup through deployment while gaining the skills to Build Practical Web Applications with Python’s Most Productive Web Framework.

Build Confident Django Web Development Skills From Project Setup To Deployment

  • Learn Django Fundamentals through a clear progression from projects, apps, routing, views, templates, and static files
  • Design data models, manage migrations, write QuerySets, and customize the Django admin for real application workflows
  • Create secure forms, authentication flows, permissions, and protected views for user-focused web applications
  • Prepare production-ready Django projects with testing, environment configuration, security basics, and deployment practices

Master the core Django workflow for building practical, maintainable Web Development projects with Python.

This course gives you a structured path through Django Fundamentals, beginning with how Django fits into the modern Web Development workflow. You will set up Python, Django, and a clean development environment, then create projects and apps while learning how Django organizes files, routes requests, and returns responses.

As the course progresses, you will build function-based views, work with templates and context, use template inheritance, and manage static files for a basic frontend structure. You will then move into data modeling, where you will define fields, relationships, metadata, migrations, QuerySets, managers, filtering patterns, and admin customization so your applications can manage real data effectively.

You will also learn how to handle user input with forms, validation, ModelForms, and create, update, and delete workflows. From there, the course introduces reusable class-based view patterns, user registration, login, logout, sessions, permissions, and authorization, giving you the practical foundation to build secure and useful Django applications.

By the end of Django Fundamentals, you will understand how to Build Practical Web Applications with Python’s Most Productive Web Framework and take a Django project from an empty folder to a deployment-ready application. You will leave with stronger Web Development judgment, a clearer grasp of Django’s structure, and the confidence to create maintainable applications that handle data, users, forms, testing, and production configuration.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

4 lessons

This lesson introduces Django as a high-level Python web framework and explains how it helps developers turn an idea into a working web application through a repeatable workflow. You will learn what a…

Lesson 2: Setting Up Python, Django, and a Clean Development Environment

20 min
In this lesson, students set up a clean Django development environment that can be reused throughout the course. The focus is on installing Python correctly, isolating project dependencies with a virt…

Lesson 3: Creating Projects, Apps, and Django’s Core File Structure

19 min
In this lesson, students learn how a Django project is created, why Django separates a project from apps, and what each generated file is responsible for. The focus is on reading the default structure…

Lesson 4: URL Routing and the Request-Response Cycle

18 min
In this lesson, students learn how Django turns an incoming HTTP request into a response by matching URLs to view functions. The focus is on practical routing with urlpatterns , path() , app-level URL…

Views and Templates

3 lessons

Lesson 5: Building Function-Based Views and Simple Responses

17 min
In this lesson, students learn how Django function-based views turn incoming HTTP requests into simple HTTP responses. The lesson focuses on writing clear view functions, connecting them to URL patter…

Lesson 6: Working with Templates, Context, and Template Inheritance

22 min
In this lesson, students learn how Django templates turn view data into HTML pages. The focus is on practical template rendering: creating template files, passing context from views, using variables a…

Lesson 7: Managing Static Files and Basic Frontend Structure

16 min
In this lesson, students learn how Django handles static files such as CSS, JavaScript, images, and fonts during development. The lesson focuses on setting up a clean frontend structure inside a Djang…

Data Modeling

4 lessons

Lesson 8: Designing Models with Fields, Relationships, and Metadata

23 min
This lesson teaches how to design Django models that map cleanly to database tables while still reading like ordinary Python classes. Students learn how to choose field types, apply field options, mod…

Lesson 9: Using Migrations to Evolve the Database Safely

18 min
This lesson explains how Django migrations let you evolve a database schema safely as your models change. You will learn the normal workflow for creating, reviewing, applying, and troubleshooting migr…

Lesson 10: QuerySets, Managers, Filtering, and Common ORM Patterns

24 min
In this lesson, students learn how Django’s ORM turns model classes into practical database queries using QuerySets and managers. The focus is on the everyday patterns needed to retrieve, filter, sort…

Lesson 11: Customizing the Django Admin for Real Data Management

19 min
This lesson shows how to turn Django’s built-in admin from a default model browser into a practical data-management tool for real projects. Students learn how to register models with custom ModelAdmin…

Forms and User Input

2 lessons

Lesson 12: Creating Forms, Handling Validation, and Processing Input

23 min
In this lesson, students learn how Django forms turn raw browser input into validated, cleaned Python data. The lesson focuses on practical form creation, binding submitted data, displaying errors, an…

Lesson 13: ModelForms and Create, Update, and Delete Workflows

22 min
In this lesson, students learn how Django ModelForms turn model definitions into validated HTML forms, reducing duplicate code while keeping business rules close to the data model. The lesson walks th…

Application Structure

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Class-Based Views and Reusable View Patterns

21 min
This lesson introduces Django class-based views as a practical way to organize repeated view behavior without turning every view into a long function. Students learn how CBVs receive requests, dispatc…

Authentication

2 lessons

Lesson 15: User Registration, Login, Logout, and Session Basics

24 min
In this lesson, students add core authentication workflows to a Django application: user registration, login, logout, and basic session-aware page behavior. The focus is on Django’s built-in authentic…

Lesson 16: Permissions, Authorization, and Protecting Views

20 min
In this lesson, students learn how Django separates authentication from authorization and how to protect views so only the right users can access the right actions. The lesson focuses on built-in perm…

Quality and Reliability

1 lesson

Lesson 17: Writing Focused Tests for Models, Views, and Forms

22 min
Focused tests give a Django project confidence without turning the test suite into a slow, brittle second application. In this lesson, students learn how to test the behavior that matters most in a ty…

Production Readiness

3 lessons

Lesson 18: Settings, Environment Variables, and Project Configuration

19 min
This lesson prepares a Django project for real-world deployment by separating configuration from code. Students learn how Django settings are loaded, which values must change between development and p…

Lesson 19: Security Basics for Everyday Django Applications

21 min
This lesson introduces the security practices every Django application should have before it is exposed to real users. Learners focus on practical defaults: keeping secrets out of source code, configu…

Lesson 20: Preparing a Django Project for Deployment

24 min
In this lesson, students prepare an existing Django project for production by separating development conveniences from deployment-ready configuration. The focus is on practical readiness: secure setti…
About Your Instructor
Professor Samuel Reed

Professor Samuel Reed

Professor Samuel Reed guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.