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Introduction to Backend Web Development for Co-Op Fall 2024

Week 1 - What is backend web development? - Sept 13

• What happens when you request a web page?
• What do backend web servers do?
• What is Django? Who uses it? Why Django? What other options are there?
• Install VSCode, django
• Our first Django App

Week 2 - Function Based Views

• What is a view?
• What is a route?
• Passing HTTP GET parameters
• URL Parameter capturing

Week 3 - Templating

• What is a template?

Week 4 - Forms

• A review of HTML Forms
• How the web uses forms
• A simple form
• Submitting Forms

Week 5 - Practice Exercises

• Practice Exercises of the last 4 week's learning materials

Week 6 - ORM/Databases

• What is a database?
• What is an ORM?
• Why do websites need one?
• Create a django database

Week 7 - Voting App in Django

• What are static files?
• Voting App Introduction
• Creating a voting form
• Saving the votes to the database

Week ? - Hosting Django - Pythonanywhere.com