Python Django REST API

• How websites and web applications work
• Front end, back end, database and API concepts
• Installing Python, VS Code and required extensions
• Python syntax and indentation
• Variables and data types
• Input and output operations
• Operators and expressions
• Conditional statements

• for and while loops
• Strings and string methods
• Lists, tuples, sets and dictionaries
• Functions and parameters
• Return values
• Lambda functions
• Modules and packages
• Date and time handling

• Classes and objects
• Constructors
• Inheritance
• Encapsulation and polymorphism
• Exception handling
• File handling
• Reading and writing CSV files
• JSON processing
• Virtual environments
• Installing packages using pip

• HTML document structure
• Headings, paragraphs, links and images
• Tables and lists
• HTML forms and validations
• Semantic HTML
• CSS selectors
• Box model
• Colours, fonts, borders and spacing
• Flexbox and CSS Grid
• Responsive web design
• Bootstrap grid system
• Navbar, cards, tables, forms and modals

• Variables and data types
• Operators and conditions
• Loops
• Functions
• Arrays and objects
• DOM manipulation
• Event handling
• Client-side form validation
• Local storage
• Introduction to JSON

• Database concepts
• Tables, rows, columns and data types
• Primary and foreign keys
• Database relationships
• SQL CREATE, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE
• Filtering, sorting and grouping
• Aggregate functions
• Joins and subqueries
• Database normalization
• Introduction to MySQL and PostgreSQL

• Introduction to Django
• Django MVT architecture
• Installing Django
• Creating a project and application
• Project folder structure
• URLs and views
• Templates
• Static files
• Template inheritance
• Template tags and filters
• Passing data from views to templates
• Creating reusable layouts

• Django models and fields
• Migrations
• Django ORM
• Admin panel
• One-to-one relationships
• One-to-many relationships
• Many-to-many relationships
• Django forms
• Model forms
• CRUD operations
• Form validation
• Messages framework
• Pagination
• Search and filtering

• User registration
• Login and logout
• Password hashing
• Password reset
• User profiles
• Django groups and permissions
• Role-based access control
• Admin, staff and customer roles
• Sessions and cookies
• CSRF protection
• Preventing SQL injection and XSS
• Custom user model

• Class-based views
• Generic views
• File and image uploads
• Media file configuration
• Email integration
• Custom middleware
• Signals
• Context processors
• Query optimization
• Environment variables
• Logging and error handling
• Generating CSV and PDF reports
• Building a dashboard with charts

• Introduction to APIs
• REST architecture
• HTTP GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE
• HTTP status codes
• Installing Django REST Framework
• Serializers
• Model serializers
• Function-based API views
• Class-based API views
• API testing using Postman
• JSON request and response handling

• Generic API views
• Mixins
• ViewSets
• Routers
• API pagination
• Searching, filtering and ordering
• API validation
• Token authentication
• JWT authentication
• Permissions and authorization
• User registration and login APIs
• Nested serializers
• API versioning
• Throttling
• Handling file uploads through APIs
• Interactive API documentation using Swagger/OpenAPI

• JavaScript Fetch API
• Asynchronous JavaScript
• Promises and async/await
• Consuming Django REST APIs
• Displaying API data in HTML tables
• Adding, editing and deleting data through APIs
• Handling authentication tokens
• Loading indicators
• Displaying validation and server errors
• Building reusable JavaScript functions

• Debugging Django applications
• Django shell
• Unit testing
• Model and view testing
• API testing
• Postman collections
• Introduction to Git and GitHub
• Creating repositories
• Commit, push and pull
• Branches and merging
• .gitignore
• Team collaboration workflow
• Writing a project README
• Coding standards and project organization

• Development versus production environment
• PostgreSQL production database
• Environment variables and secret keys
• Static and media file management
• Gunicorn application server
• Basic Linux commands
• Introduction to Nginx
• Domain and SSL concepts
• Deployment using Render, Railway, PythonAnywhere or a VPS
• Database migration on the server
• Application logging
• Backup and recovery
• Production security checklist

Students will develop a complete application containing:

• Responsive front end
• Django back end
• REST API
• Database relationships
• Registration and login
• JWT authentication
• Role-based access
• CRUD operations
• Search, filtering and pagination
• Dashboard and reports
• Form and API validation
• API documentation
• GitHub repository
• Production deployment
• Project documentation and presentation