Chapter 1, Django's Position on the Web, gives a short history of the Web and its evolution. It explains what a framework and MVC pattern are. It ends with a presentation of Django.

Chapter 2, Creating a Django Project, deals with the installation of the necessary software to use Django. At the end of this chapter, you will have a development environment that is ready to code.

Chapter 3, Hello World! with Django, describes Django routing after a reminder of regular expressions. It ends with an example of a simple controller that displays "Hello world!" on the user's browser.

Chapter 4, Working with Templates, explains how Django templates work. It covers the basics of the template language as well as the best practices for architecture templates and URL creation.

Chapter 5, Working with Models, describes the construction of models in Django. It also explains how to generate the database and how to maintain it with the South tool. This chapter also shows you how to set up the administration interface via the admin module.

Chapter 6, Getting a Model's Data with Querysets, explains how to perform queries on the database through models. Examples are used to test different types of queries.

Chapter 7, Working with Django Forms, discusses Django forms. It explains how to create forms with Django and how to treat them.

Chapter 8, Raising Your Productivity with CBV, focuses on a unique aspect of Django: class-based views. This chapter explains how to create CRUD interfaces in seconds.

Chapter 9, Using Sessions, explains how to use Django sessions. Different practical examples show the use of session variables and how to get the best out of them.

Chapter 10, The Authentication Module, explains how to use the Django authentication module. It covers registration, login, and access restriction to some pages.

Chapter 11, Using AJAX with Django, describes the basics of the jQuery library. Then, it shows a practical example of using AJAX with Django and explains the features of these pages.

Chapter 12, Production with Django, explains how to deploy a website with the Django web server such as Nginx and a PostgreSQL web system database.

Appendix, Cheatsheet, is a quick reference to the common methods or attributes useful to a Django developer.

The software required for Django development are as follows:

This book is for Python developers who want to learn how to create a website with a quality framework. The book is also for web developers who use other languages such as PHP and who wish to improve the quality and maintainability of their website. The book is for anyone who has Python basics and web basics as well as who wishes to work on one of the most advanced frameworks today.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. The following are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the settings.py directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
# url(r'^$', 'Work_msanager.views.home', name='home'),
# url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

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root@debian: wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib
/get-pip.py
root@debian:python3 get-pip.py

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Click on Advanced System Settings."

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