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Gain insights into Django web development. Learn about setting up URLs, views, templates, user accounts, search filters, styling with Bootstrap, and cloud deployment using AWS and Heroku.

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The focus of this course is to learn Django web development by example. You will be developing a web application step-by-step by setting up URLs, views, and templates of different web pages. The course walks you through various useful concepts to give your app a real look. For example, creating and managing user accounts, implementing search filters, uploading images, Bootstrap styling, and cloud deployment using AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Heroku. 

Every concept is presented with an executable environment so that you get hands-on experience. By the end of the course, you will have a real web application using Django. This is a great course for beginners who want to learn the basics of Django and start building along the way.

Django Takeoff: Developing Modern Applications

If you want to work on the app in this course or practice Django web development on your own machine, we recommend Visual Studio Code as an IDE. In this lesson, we describe how to set up your development environment once you have installed Visual Studio Code


# Create project folder
Start by creating a folder where you would store all your project files. I named my folder ***EXAMPLE***. Go to Visual Studio Code and open this folder by clicking on **File**, then **Open**. Inside that folder create another folder with the name of your project. I named this folder ***project***.

Open the terminal window by going to **Terminal**, then click **New Terminal**. A new terminal will appear at the bottom of VS code. Make sure you are inside the first folder you created (***EXAMPLE***) by looking at the path in the command line. After you have checked this, go into the folder for your project (***project***) by issuing the `cd` command as shown below.

# Virtual environment

A virtual environment (`venv`) helps us keep our individual projects relatively contained in order to avoid installing Python packages globally on our computer which might cause problems between conflicting files and packages.

We need to create a virtual environment and activate it. In order to do this, we issue the following commands.

Follow step-by-step instructions to set up the environment for Django web app development.

Introduction

Django Web App Setup

Django Basics

Homepage

Listings Page

New Listing Page

Navbar

Detail Listing Page

My Listings Page

Edit Listing Page

Delete Listing Page

Users App

Register Page

Foreign Key

Images

Django Filters

Styling the Django Web App

Using Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Heroku Deployment

Conclusion

Django Takeoff - Assessment

Appendix

Visual Studio and Packages Installation

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