The Python Environment

1. Starting Python

2. Using the interpreter

3. Running a Python script

4. Getting help

5. Editors and IDEs

Getting Started

1. Using variables

2. Built in functions

3. Strings

4. Numbers

5. Converting among types

6. Writing to the screen

7. Command line parameters

Flow Control

1. About flow control

2. Conditional expressions

3. Relational and Boolean operators

4. while loops

Lists and Tuples

1. About sequences

2. Lists and list methods

3. Tuples

4. Indexing and slicing

5. Iterating through a sequence

6. Sequence functions, keywords, and operators

7. List comprehensions

Working with Files

1. File overview

2. The with statement

3. Opening a file

4. Reading/writing files

Dictionaries and Sets

1. About dictionaries

2. Creating and using dictionaries

3. About sets

4. Creating and using sets

Functions

1. Returning values

2. Function parameters

3. Variable Scope

4. Sorting with functions

Errors and Exception Handling

1. Exception overview

2. Using try/catch/else/finally

3. Handling multiple exceptions

4. Ignoring exceptions

Modules and Packages

1. Creating Modules

2. The import statement

3. Module search path

4. Creating packages

Classes

1. About OO programming

2. Defining classes

3. Constructors

4. Properties

5. Instance methods and data

6. Class/static methods and data

7. Inheritance

Django Architecture

1. Django overview

2. Minimal Django layout

3. Built in flexibility

Getting Started with Django

1. Sites and apps

2. Shared configuration

3. Executing manage.py

4. Starting the project

5. Generating app files

6. App configuration

7. Database setup

8. The development server

Using cookiecutter

1. What is cookiecutter

2. Creating projects with cookiecutter

Creating models

1. Defining models

2. Adding data

3. Related objects

4. SQL Migration

5. Simple model access

Login for Nothing and Admin for Free

1. Setting up the admin user

2. Using the admin interface

3. Editing data

Querying Models

1. QuerySets

2. Field lookups

3. Chaining filters

4. Slicing QuerySets

5. Related fields

6. Q objects

Views

1. What is a view?

2. HttpResponse

3. URL route configuration

4. Shortcut: get_object_or_404()

Templates

1. About templates

2. Variable lookups

3. The url tag

4. Shortcut: render()

Forms

1. Forms overview

2. GET and POST

3. The Form class

4. Processing the form

5. Widgets

6. Validation

7. Forms in templates

Unit Testing

1. Why create tests?

2. When to create tests

3. Using Django's test framework

4. Using the test client

5. Running tests

6. Checking code coverage