Django Course Syllabus in Chennai at Payilagam

Modules in Django Course

Module 1: Django MVT Architecture

• ✔️ What is a server?
• ✔️ Understanding basic client-server architecture
• ✔️ HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
• ✔️ Introduction to Django and its advantages
• ✔️ MVT (Model-View-Template) Architecture in Django
• ✔️ Request-response flow in Django

Module 2: PIP and Virtualenv Concepts

• ✔️ Creating and managing Python virtual environments
• ✔️ Installing Django using pip, the importance of requirements.txt
• ✔️ Understanding Django project and app structure
• ✔️ Difference between .py files, apps, and packaged libraries

Module 3: Project and applications

• ✔️ Creating and configuring a project
• ✔️ creating and configuring applications
• ✔️ Creating and Configuring views and URLs
• ✔️ running development server

Projects in Django

Project 1: personal portfolio website

• ✔️ Using HTML, CSS
• ✔️ GitHub commands and GitHub Pages

Project 2: Registration Form Using Django

• ✔️ Django Form
• ✔️ Model Form
• ✔️ Creating models for user registration
• ✔️ using built-in User model
• ✔️ custom AbstractUser
• ✔️ Adding validations in forms
• ✔️ Rendering templates using Django Template Language (DTL)
• ✔️ Using Crispy Forms (optional for styling)

Project 3: Color Picker using Django

• ✔️ Creating a color input form in HTML
• ✔️ Capturing user input via views
• ✔️ Sending and displaying dynamic data (list of colors) in a template
• ✔️ Using Django templates to render lists dynamically

Project 4: Simple Calculator with Django

• ✔️ Building a calculator form with two inputs
• ✔️ Performing arithmetic logic in the view
• ✔️ Displaying the calculated result on the same page

Project 5: Product Catalogue for E-Commerce Site

• ✔️ Creating Product model
• ✔️ Using Django ORM to store and retrieve products
• ✔️ Creating product list and detail views
• ✔️ Displaying products using templates

Project 6: Quiz Application using Django

• ✔️ Creating models for questions and answers
• ✔️ Displaying a quiz using Django forms
• ✔️ Capturing user answers, calculating and displaying the result

Project 7: To-Do List

• ✔️ Creating Task model
• ✔️ Using Django sessions to track user tasks
• ✔️ Add, delete individual tasks, and delete all tasks

Modules in Django Course

Module 4: REST API Integration with Django

• ✔️ Introduction to Django REST Framework
• ✔️ Creating simple API endpoints
• ✔️ Consuming external APIs (e.g., OpenWeatherMap) using requests
• ✔️ Parsing and displaying weather data in the view

Module 5 : API Documentation

• ✔️ Adding Swagger/OpenAPI docs using drf-yasg or drf-spectacular
• ✔️ Visualizing and testing APIs via Swagger UI

Module 6: Django Exception Handling

• ✔️ Handling Django’s built-in exceptions
• ✔️ Creating custom exception classes
• ✔️ Displaying error messages gracefully in templates

Module 7: Logging with Python’s logging module

• ✔️ Configuring logging in settings.py
• ✔️ Adding log messages in views and models
• ✔️ Writing logs to files

Module 8: Django ORM and Advanced Queries

• ✔️ Using Model.objects to query the database
• ✔️ Difference between basic CRUD and advanced ORM
• ✔️ Writing custom queries with Q() and annotations
• ✔️ Using select_related, prefetch_related for JOINs

Module 9: PostgreSQL Integration

• ✔️ Installing PostgreSQL and psycopg2
• ✔️ Configuring DATABASES in settings.py
• ✔️ Running migrations on PostgreSQL
• ✔️ Connecting Django to remote PostgreSQL DB (optional)

Module 10: Django Authentication and Authorization

• ✔️ Using built-in User model and auth system
• ✔️ Creating login, logout, and registration views
• ✔️ Using decorators like @login_required
• ✔️ Defining user roles with Groups and Permissions
• ✔️ Restricting access to views/templates based on roles