Django Essentials

172 Pages·2014·1.11 MB·English

by  Samuel Dauzon

Getting Started with Django
Develop simple web applications with the powerful
Django framework
Samuel Dauzon
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Getting Started with Django
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About the Author
Samuel Dauzon is a web developer. After two years of studying networks and
their administration, he decided to head for development. He regularly tries out
the latest development technologies for his customers. He is interested in software
quality and security. He is also interested in web frameworks and has studied
Symfony2 and ExtJS. He works primarily on CodeIgniter2 and Django.
He previously worked for CER FRANCE 49 (an accounting firm) for one year,
where he created some software that was used internally with the WebDev software.
Presently, he works for ILTR, a web development company specializing in ASP,
PHP, and CodeIgniter2. For over two years, he has also worked as a freelance
web developer (in PHP, Django, and so on).
I thank my wife, Noëllie, who has long participated in this book by
translating French to English and for supporting me with her love
during the writing of this book. I thank my parents for their support
and attention. I thank my friends, especially Marion and Dimitri,
who have borne with me while I explained what a web framework
is. I also thank my family and all those who have borne with me
while I explained the book's subject. I also want to thank Nikhil,
Puja (for her precious encouragements), Ruchita, and Gaurav
from Packt Publishing, with whom it's been a pleasure to work.
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Jorge Armin Garcia Lopez is a very passionate information security consultant
from Mexico with more than six years of experience in computer security, penetration
testing, intrusion detection/prevention, malware analysis, and incident response. He
is the leader of a tiger team at one of the most important security companies in Latin
America and Spain. Also, he is a security researcher at Cipher Storm Ltd. Group and
is the co-founder and CEO of the most important security conference in Mexico called
BugCON. He holds important security industry certifications such as OSCP, GCIA,
and GPEN, and is also a FireEye specialist.
He has also reviewed Penetration Testing with Backbox, Packt Publishing and Penetration
Testing with the Bash shell, Packt Publishing.
Thanks to all my friends for supporting me. Special thanks to my
grandmother, Margarita; my sister, Abril; and to Krangel, Shakeel
Ali, Mada, Hector Garcia Posadas, and Belindo.
Caleb Smith began programming text adventures and RPGs in BASIC in his
youth. More recently, Caleb can be found spending his days writing Python and
JavaScript for web applications at Caktus Consulting Group, LLC. In his spare time,
Caleb enjoys functional programming, ethnic food, C programming, music theory,
and contributing to free and open source software projects. Caleb studied music
education in college and especially enjoys mentoring new programmers.
Deepak Thukral is a polyglot and Django framework contributor. He moved
from India to Europe, where he completed his Master's degree in Computer Science,
and later he was involved in various scientific projects using Python as the primary
programming language. He currently works for various companies, helping them
scale their platforms with Python.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Django's Position on the Web 7
From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 7
Web 1.0 7
Web 2.0 8
What is Django? 9
Django – a web framework 9
The MVC framework 9
Why use Django? 11
Summary 12
Chapter 2: Creating a Django Project 13
Installing Python 3 13
Installing Python 3 for Windows 14
Installing Python 3 for Linux 14
Installing Python 3 for Mac OS 15
Installing setuptools 15
Installing setuptools for Windows 15
Installing setuptools for Linux 15
Installing setuptools for Mac OS 15
Installing PIP 16
Installing PIP for Windows 16
Installing PIP for Linux 16
Installing PIP for Mac OS 17
Installing Django 17
Installing Django for Windows 17
Installing Django for Linux 17
Installing Django for Mac OS 18