1. Getting Started with Python

• History of Python
• Python Versions
• Installation
• Why to use Python?
• Using the Interpreter
• IDLE
• Running a Python Script
• Python Editors and IDEs
• Variables, Keywords
• Naming Conventions
• Built-in Functions
• Getting Help

2. Basic Python Concepts

• Mathematical Operations
• Comments
• Strings
• Performing operations on a string
• String Formatting

3. Flow Control

• Indenting is significant
• Booleans
• Comparison Operators
• if Statement
• elif Statement
• else Statement
• while loop
• for loop
• range() function
• break and continue

4. Functions

• Syntax of function definition
• Parameters
• Documentation Strings
• Keyword and Optional Arguments
• Global versus local variables
• Passing Collections to a Function
• Variable Number of Arguments
• Passing Functions as arguments
• Lambda

5. Collections

• Lists
• Tuples
• Sets
• Dictionaries
• Indexing and Slicing
• Iterating through a collection

6. Modules

• Import Statement
• The from ... import statement
• Module Search Path
• Making Your Own Modules
• Standard Modules - sys
• Standard Modules - time
• The dir Function

7. Exception Handling

• Errors
• Exceptions
• Handling Exceptions
• Raising Exceptions
• Try ... Finally
• assert
• Writing Your Own Exception Classes

8. Input and Output

• Access Modes
• Reading Data From a File
• Writing Data to a File
• Handling IO Exceptions

9. Implementing Classes and Objects

• Defining Classes
• Inheritance
• Initializers
• Instance Methods
• Properties
• Class Methods and Data
• Static Methods
• Private Methods
• Operator Overloading
• Encapsulating attributes and methods in
• classes

10. Regular Expression

• Regular Expression Syntax
• Building Blocks
• Grouping

11. Other Things To Know

• Iterator
• Generators
• Decorators
• The Python Debugger
• Logging
• Context Managers ("with" statement)
• Comprehensions
• Python package manager (pip)
• Virtual environments

Section 2: Django Framework

1. Getting Started With Django

• Introduction
• How Web works
• Setting up the development
• environment
• Installation
• Django project
• Django application
• Running the server

2. Django URL Patterns

• What are URLs?
• URL Dispatcher
• Directory Structure
• MVC Applied to Django and Git
• Request Life Cycle
• URL patterns
• URL Patterns Configuration
• Shortcuts and Handling 404s

3. Django views

• How to create Django views?
• About View Functions
• Using Django's HttpResponse Class
• Understanding HttpRequest Objects

4. Django Templates

• Template Language
• Template Inheritance
• Template Filters
• Creating Custom Template Filters
• Relative URLS
• Static & Media files
• Twitter bootstrap integration

5. Django Models & ORM

• Models Overview
• Creating Models
• Model Manager
• Migration
• Providing initial data (fixtures)
• Playing with the data
• Making Queries
• Understanding QuerySets
• Common QuerySet Methods
• Managing Related Records
• Retrieving Related Records
• Complex lookups with Q objects
• Aggregation
• Search
• Performing raw SQL queries

6. Django Admin

• Creating a super user
• Accessing models from the admin site
• Customizing the admin site
• Adding related models
• Ordering Fields

7. Django Forms

• Django’s role in forms
• Building Form
• Building ModelForm
• Working with form templates
• Built-in Validators
• Writing Validators

8. Django Middleware

• Available Middleware
• Writing your own middleware
• Activating Middleware

9. Django Authentication

• User Model
• User Manager
• Password Hashing
• Password Validators
• Permissions and Authorization
• Authentication Views
• Built-in forms
• Registration
• Login
• Password Reset
• Restricting Access

10. Django Cache

• Setting Up the Cache
• Usage
• Versioning

11. Writing reusable apps

• Installing some prerequisites
• Packaging app
• Using own package
• Publishing app

12. Django Deployment

• Introduction to Django Deployment
• Setting Up Gitlab
• Deployment Workthrough

13. You should also know

• Django Management Commands
• Django Debug Toolbar
• Using Logging
• Configuring Logging
• File Upload, Handling Ajax request
• Configuring Mail Settings
• Sending email
• Outputting PDFs with Django
• Django Signals