Introduction to Django

• Django’s philosophy
• Some basic terminology
• Getting started

• What’s a model?
• Writing models
• The model API
• Model metadata
• Relationships (foreign key, many-to-many, one-to-one)

• What is it?
• Activating the admin
• Live demo

• What are views?
• URLs; Mapping URLs to views
• Dissecting a request
• Writing a view

• What’s a template?
• Why use templates?
• Writing templates.
• Tags/filters
• Template inheritance

• What makes a “good” web form?
• Defining and handling basic forms
• Using model forms

• What’s next?
• Where to go for help

If people have their own laptops with Django installed, they’ll be able to follow along with the tutorial as it goes. I won’t, however, be able to spend time helping attendees install Django—that can just take forever. The complete code for the tutorial will be available so that attendees can hack and tweak as we go. In the past about half the audience has done so; the other half simply took notes or fooled around with their own projects.