Mastering Django: Core

Preface

What you need for this book

Required programming knowledge

Readers of this book should understand the basics of procedural and object-oriented programming: control structures (such as if, while, or for), data structures (lists, hashes/dictionaries), variables, classes, and objects. Experience in web development is, as you may expect, very helpful, but it is not required to understand this book. Throughout the book, I try to promote best practices in web development for readers who lack this experience.

Required Python knowledge

At its core, Django is simply a collection of libraries written in the Python programming language. To develop a site using Django, you write Python code that uses these libraries. Learning Django, then, is a matter ...