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Django 3 By Example - Third Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 3 By Example - Third Edition

By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Python and Django, then this book is for you. In the process of building four professional Django projects, you will learn about Django 3 features, how to solve common web development problems, how to implement best practices, and how to successfully deploy your applications. In this book, you will build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop, and an e-learning platform. Step-by-step guidance will teach you how to integrate popular technologies, enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs, and set up a production environment for your Django projects. By the end of this book, you will have mastered Django 3 by building advanced web applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Displaying courses

For your course catalog, you have to build the following functionalities:

  • List all available courses, optionally filtered by subject
  • Display a single course overview

Edit the views.py file of the courses application and add the following code:

from django.db.models import Count
from .models import Subject
class CourseListView(TemplateResponseMixin, View):
    model = Course
    template_name = 'courses/course/list.html'
    def get(self, request, subject=None):
        subjects = Subject.objects.annotate(
                       total_courses=Count('courses'))
        courses = Course.objects.annotate(
                       total_modules=Count('modules'))
        if subject:
            subject = get_object_or_404(Subject, slug=subject)
            courses = courses.filter(subject=subject)
        return self.render_to_response({'subjects': subjects,
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