Django 4 for the Impatient: Learn the core concepts of Python web development with Django in one weekend

by Greg Lim, Daniel Correa

Learning Django can be a tricky and time-consuming activity. There are hundreds of tutorials, loads of documentation, and many explanations that are hard to digest. However, this book enables you to use and learn Django in just a couple of days.

In this book, you'll go on a fun, hands-on, and pragmatic journey to learn Django full stack development. You'll start building your first Django app within minutes. You'll be provided with short explanations and a practical approach that cover some of the most important Django features, such as Django Apps' structure, URLs, views, templates, models, CSS inclusion, image storage, authentication and authorization, Django admin panel, and many more. You'll also use Django to develop a movies review app and deploy it to the internet.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to build and deploy your own Django web applications.

Genres: Technology, Programming

190 pages, Paperback

Published June 24, 2022

Reviews

[Felix · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm kind of torn on my review of this book. On the one hand, this is kind of a decent introduction to Django 4, but on the other hand, this is much more of a tutorial than a real explanation of the proper use of Django. The whole book is centered around a single project, which is interesting enough to build. The problem is that although I have a much clearer idea now as to how Django is used, I'm not really sure I know much more about how it works.

Then again, this only a short book, and is only intended as an introduction. By that metric, I can't pretend that it has failed in its goals. But I definitely need to read a lot more on this topic to properly grasp the ideas that this book is trying to put forward.

[Martin Denton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this to be an excellent resource to kick-start web development using the Django framework. I worked with an earlier version of Django about 2-3 years ago, but only briefly; I have programmed websites using other technologies and I have worked with Python over the years as well. So I came to this book not as a beginner but as someone with lots of familiarity with general concepts who wanted to learn specifics of using this framework to create a website from scratch.

This book helped me achieve that goal very quickly and effectively. The title is exactly correct: this really is a guide to learn the nuts and bolts of using Django without dwelling on a lot of background or detail. In just a few evenings, I built a working sample website, and what's more I have a firm understanding of how to proceed using Django to make the website(s) that I really want to create. The book offers instruction that's fast, accurate, and satisfies the general use case for a typical site. There will be lots of adjusting and calibrating to do, and I can read other books or the Django documentation to find that out when I need to. I am delighted that I am equipped with a sound knowledge of the fundamentals to proceed!

The writing is very clear and very easy to understand. This is one of the best tutorials for a software development framework/tool that I have come across.

[Ashutosh Bhadoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is great book, where we build a movie review project from the very start till the app deployment. The instructions are easy to follow and multiple code snippets and screenshots help a lot. The patterns introduced in this book will useful in a variety of problem statements. This book does not go into a lot of details of the framework or deliberate on best practices, but that is perfectly fine for sucj a concise book.

[Mochammad Hadyan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Superb book! If you're totally new to Django and want to explore it, i can't recommend enough to this resource.

Straight to the point and cover the main features with real world example.

I can finish the book under one day.

Go get it!

[Ethan Cronin · Rating 4 out of 5]

you cant learn django in just a weekend