• What is Django? Used by youtube and spotify, Django is a framework allowing your to build interactive web pages without reinventing the wheel.
• IDEs Programs to help you code (includes setup)
• Git. The version control system how to store your code and view previous revisions.

Introduction to web page layout.

• The HTML format and syntax How web pages are designed.
• CSS, web page stying parameters How web pages are styled.
• introduction to bootstrap web page styling. Templated units to style responsive web pages easily.

Python, a core programming language.

Python can be used for applications, data analysis, game development and AI.

• The python shell. How to run python commands in terminal.
• Variables. Values which alter over a program's execution.
• Control structures. Logical constructs of application flow.
• Methods Functions to run units of code self contained.
• Classes Units Functions and variables with their own state.

Django, a content management system for producing interactive web pages.

• Settings.py file. Global settings for the django program execution.
• Virtual environments. A self contained environment containing the resources your program needs.
• Plugins. How to use plugins to perform common tasks.
• The model view controller architecture. The abstraction of database entries (the model), the website presentation (the view) and the application logic (the controller).
• Database objects. How to allocate space in the database for it's entries.
• Migrating databases. How to update the database layout to store your entries over time.
• The controller how to save and get from the database.
• The controller how to pass variables to the view.
• Forms. how to present forms in the view.
• Forms. how to save forms and get data from them.
• Form validation How to validate forms before being passed to the controller.
• Processing models in the view. Looping over models and if / then flows.

Deploying to live servers.

• Uploading your code. Get your code on a remote managed server.
• System propertiesAttaching database and linking your web domain name
• docker imagesAdjusting deployed images to use extended system functionality.

Where can you go from here?

Once you know one programming language it becomes easier to learn others.

Cost: 2 hour sessions at £25.

Why so cheap?

I was lucky, I had the resources to go to University. Not everybody does.

Bi weekly sessions at a venue to be decided.

Course prerequisites:

• An interest in IT
• A familiarity with your machine
• The ability to install programs
• The ability to troubleshoot simple problems.
• A laptop (any OS) to work on.*

*

Raspberry Pi 400 available at under £100 pounds if you do not have a laptop
I can help out with it's OS.