Terrapin Hackers This Week (4/18 - 4/22)

Missed the Django hacktorial this week? No problem! Went to the hacktorial, but need some reinforcement? No problem! Join Terrapin Hackers and Ub Patil for this hacktorial on how to develop with Django. 

In this hacktorial we will learn the basics of Django setup and development (we will not cover deployment in this hacktorial). Django is a high level Python web framework built on the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern. It is designed with a “batteries included” philosophy, which means many common features come included with the framework, saving developer time.

By the end of this hacktorial you will learn:

how a django project is organized
how the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern is used in Django
how to set up a basic Django project and run it on a local server on your own machine
how to route URLs
how to construct basic models
how to write basic function-based views
how to render views as templates

And by the end of this hacktorial we will have built a very basic blog app that will allow someone to write a blog post with a title and an author name. The front page of the website will display all blog posts with a link to each.

Lastly, we will assign some suggested homework assignments that build on the concepts we cover together, encourage you to think critically about Django, and hopefully expose you to new concepts we did not cover.

Link to Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/816119448532637/

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