Agenda
• Learn about the advantages of
using Django
• Investigate the architecture of a Django site
• Set up a new Django project with multiple
apps
• Build models and views
• Create and connect Django templates
• Upload images into your Django site
Why to learn Django?
• First of all, it’s written in Python, one of the
most readable and beginner-friendly
programming languages
• One of the great things about Django is
that you don’t need to
consider external Python packages
because Django has so many features
included.
Django Architecture
A Django website consists of a single project that’s
split into separate apps.
The idea is that each app handles a self-contained task
that the site needs to perform. As an example, imagine
an application like Instagram.
There are several different tasks that it needs to
perform:
User management: Logging in and out, registering,
and so on
The image feed: Uploading, editing, and displaying
images
Private messaging: Sending messages between
users and providing notifications
MVC Architecture
• Model defines the data structure. This
is usually the database description and
often the base layer to an application.
• View displays some or all of the data to
the user with HTML and CSS.
• Controller handles how the database
and the view interact. This controller
part is handled by Django itself.
The pattern Django utilizes is called
the model-view-template (MVT) pattern
