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Charles Severance

This series introduces Python programmers to building websites using the Django library. Across the four courses, you will learn HTML, CSS, SQL, Django, JavaScript, jQuery, and JSON Web Services. During the course, you will build online websites using Django and those working websites are graded throughout the course. This series is excellent preparation for learning other ways to build web applications using technologies like PHP, Flask or Ruby on Rails. This is a great first course in any web development curriculum.

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Four courses

Web Application Technologies and Django

(15 hours)
In this course, you'll explore the basic structure of a web application and how a web browser interacts with a web server. You'll be introduced to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request/response cycle, including GET/POST/Redirect. You'll also gain an introductory understanding of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), as well as the overall structure of a Django application.

Building Web Applications in Django

(12 hours)
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.

Django Features and Libraries

(18 hours)
In this course, you will learn how to build Django-based web applications. You will learn about cookies, sessions, and authentication processes in Django. You will build navigation into your applications and explore ways to easily improve the look and feel of Django applications. You will also learn how to move an application from development to production.

Using JavaScript and JSON in Django

(15 hours)
In this course, we'll explore JavaScript, focusing on its unique approach to Object-Oriented programming. We'll also introduce jQuery for DOM manipulation and event handling. Finally, we'll cover JSON for data exchange between server and browser code. This course assumes completion of the first three courses in the specialization.

Learning objectives

  • Django (web framework)
  • Html
  • Css (cascading style sheets)
  • Javascript
  • Sql

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