William S. Vincent. Django for Beginners. , , 2020.

Welcome to Django for Beginners, a project-based approach to learning web development with the Django1 web framework. In this book you will build five progressively more complex web applications, starting with a simple Hello, World app, progressing to a Pages app, a Message Board app, a Blog app with forms and user accounts, and finally a Newspaper app that uses a custom user model, email integration, foreign keys, authorization, permissions, and more. By the end of this book you will feel confident creating your own Django projects from scratch using current best practices. Django is a free, open source web framework written in the Python2 programming language. A “web framework” is software that abstracts away many of the common challenges related to building a website, such as connecting to a database, handling security, user accounts, and so on. These days most developers rely on web frameworks rather than trying to build a website truly from scratch. Django in particular was first released in 2005 and has been in continuous development since then. Today, it is one of the most popular web frameworks available, used by the largest websites in the world–Instagram, Pinterest, Bitbucket, Disqus–but also flexible enough to be a good choice for early-stage startups and prototyping personal projects.