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Mastering Django: Core

The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS

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|Dec 2016
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Delivers absolutely everything you will ever need to know to become a master Django programmer

Key Features

  • Gain a complete understanding of Django—the most popular, Python-based web framework in the world
  • Gain the skills to successfully designing, developing, and deploying your app
  • This book is packaged with fully described code so you can learn the fundamentals and the advanced topics to get a complete understanding of all of Django’s core functions

Book Description

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django.
The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain.
This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.

What you will learn

  • Use Django to access user-submitted form data, validate it, and work with it
  • Get to know advanced URLconf tips and tricks
  • Extend Django's template system with custom code
  • Define models and use the database API to create, retrieve, update, and delete records
  • Fully extend and customize the default implementation as per your project's needs
  • Test and deploy your Django application
  • Get to know more about Django's session, cache Framework, and middleware

Who this book is for

This book assumes you have a basic understanding of the Internet and programming. Experience with Python or Django would be an advantage, but is not necessary. It is ideal for beginner to intermediate programmers looking for a fast, secure, scalable, and maintainable alternative web development platform to those based on PHP, Java, and dotNET.

Table of Contents

  1. Full book
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78728-634-4
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 694