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Python Web Development with Django
- By Jeff Forcier, Paul Bissex, Wesley Chun
- Published Oct 24, 2008 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Developer's Library series.
- Copyright 2009
- Dimensions: 7 X 9
- Pages: 408
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-235613-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-235613-8
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Product Author Bios
Jeffrey E. Forcier currently works as a systems administrator and backend Web developer at Digital Pulp, Inc., a New York-based interactive agency and Web development company. He has 7 years experience in Web development with PHP and Python, including professional and personal use of the Django framework since its public release in 2005. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts.
Paul Bissex has worked as a graphic designer, writer, teacher, babysitter, and software developer. He was an early adopter of Django and is the creator and maintainer of dpaste.com, the Django community pastebin site. From September to June, he can be found at the Hallmark Institute of Photography (hallmark.edu), teaching Web development and using Python and Django to build everything from attendance systems to housing databases to image processing utilities. His writings on technology have appeared in Wired, Salon.com, and the Chicago Tribune. Since 1996, he has served as a conference host for The Well (well.com), which Wired magazine called “the world’s most influential online community,” and currently hosts the Web conference there. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife Kathleen.
Wesley J. Chun is author of Prentice Hall’s bestseller, Core Python Programming (corepython.com), its video training course, Python Fundamentals (LiveLessons DVD), and coauthor of Python Web Development with Django (withdjango.com). In addition to being a senior software architect, he runs CyberWeb (cyberwebconsulting.com), a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical training. He has more than 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California.
Using the simple, robust, Python-based Django framework, you can build powerful Web solutions with remarkably few lines of code. In Python Web Development with Django®, three experienced Django and Python developers cover all the techniques, tools, and concepts you need to make the most of Django 1.0, including all the major features of the new release.
The authors teach Django through in-depth explanations, plus provide extensive sample code supported with images and line-by-line explanations. You’ll discover how Django leverages Python’s development speed and flexibility to help you solve a wide spectrum of Web development problems and learn Django best practices covered nowhere else. You’ll build your first Django application in just minutes and deepen your real-world skills through start-to-finish application projects including
- Simple Web log (blog)
- Online photo gallery
- Simple content management system
- Ajax-powered live blogger
- Online source code sharing/syntax highlighting tool
- How to run your Django applications on the Google App Engine
This complete guide starts by introducing Python, Django, and Web development concepts, then dives into the Django framework, providing a deep understanding of its major components (models, views, templates), and how they come together to form complete Web applications. After a discussion of four independent working Django applications, coverage turns to advanced topics, such as caching, extending the template system, syndication, admin customization, and testing. Valuable reference appendices cover using the command-line, installing and configuring Django, development tools, exploring existing Django applications, the Google App Engine, and how to get more involved with the Django community.
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Practical Python for Django 7
Chapter 2: Django for the Impatient: Building a Blog 57
Chapter 3: Starting Out 77
Part II: Django in Depth
Chapter 4: Defining and Using Models 89
Chapter 5: URLs, HTTP Mechanisms, and Views 117
Chapter 6: Templates and Form Processing 135
Part III: Django Applications by Example
Chapter 7: Photo Gallery 159
Chapter 8: Content Management System 181
Chapter 9: Liveblog 205
Chapter 10: Pastebin 221
Part IV: Advanced Django Techniques and Features
Chapter 11: Advanced Django Programming 235
Chapter 12: Advanced Django Deployment 261
Part V: Appendices
Appendix A: Command Line Basics 285
Appendix B: Installing and Running Django 295
Appendix C: Tools for Practical Django Development 313
Appendix D: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Django Applications 321
Appendix E: Django on the Google App Engine 325
Appendix F: Getting Involved in the Django Project 337
Index 339
Colophon 375
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
A reasonable introduction to Django, By
This review is from: Python Web Development with Django (Paperback)
We are a Python shop at work and have recently started developing in Django. So I picked this book up as a total beginner to Django, but an experienced Python programmer. I feel that the book would be more or less the same even for someone totally new to Python, because Django is definitely a different kind of beast.Overall, this book was okay to good. I would give it 3.5 stars if I could. It is definitely targeted at beginners to Django (and possibly Python). As a Django beginner, I first ran through the tutorial on the Django website, because it is very thorough and good. I definitely recommend that as a starting place regardless of which book you end up buying. Then I cracked open this book. The first chapter is a 50-page introduction to Python, so I skipped that. Chapter 2 is a tutorial in which you build a simple blog. So by the time I had finished that chapter, I had built two different Django sites but not really read anything about the language or framework or... Read more
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Good Information on Django, By
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I've read four books on Django now, as well as the documentation on the Django website. Some of the information in the other books is now outdated since Django 1.0 was released, but this book does not suffer from that problem.I liked this book because it was short and to the point, is up-to-date, and clarified some of the documentation on the Django website. If you only want to buy one book on Django, this would be the best one to get; in my opinion.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Not an easy beginner book., By
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Coming from a PHP background, I decided to take on a more serious development language for my future web projects. I picked Python and Django.This book covers basic Python first. So it's not necessary to learn Python from a dedicated book. The primer in this book is adequate. And the online documentation is great to fill in the spaces as needed. The thing I like most about the book is that it covers a tremendous amount of ground. The example projects use advanced functions and structures that other books avoid, and the coding structures can be complex and deep. DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) is a core philosophy in Python and in Django. These authors do a great job keeping the code DRY. And that often means building elegant, but hard to understand code. The thing I don't like about the book is related to what I think makes it so good. It's damn complex at times. Often while trying to work through some code examples and reproduce the... Read more |
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Django for the Impatient: Building a Blog
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Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Practical Python for Django 7
Chapter 2: Django for the Impatient: Building a Blog 57
Chapter 3: Starting Out 77
Part II: Django in Depth
Chapter 4: Defining and Using Models 89
Chapter 5: URLs, HTTP Mechanisms, and Views 117
Chapter 6: Templates and Form Processing 135
Part III: Django Applications by Example
Chapter 7: Photo Gallery 159
Chapter 8: Content Management System 181
Chapter 9: Liveblog 205
Chapter 10: Pastebin 221
Part IV: Advanced Django Techniques and Features
Chapter 11: Advanced Django Programming 235
Chapter 12: Advanced Django Deployment 261
Part V: Appendices
Appendix A: Command Line Basics 285
Appendix B: Installing and Running Django 295
Appendix C: Tools for Practical Django Development 313
Appendix D: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Django Applications 321
Appendix E: Django on the Google App Engine 325
Appendix F: Getting Involved in the Django Project 337
Index 339
Colophon 375
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