🧩 2-Week Django Training Workshop

Organized by: Python Katsina Community
Duration: 14 Days — 2 hrs/day
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Location: In-person
Registration: coming soon

🎯 Workshop Goal

To empower learners with the foundational and intermediate skills needed to build full-stack web applications using Django, one of the most powerful and popular Python web frameworks.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: - Set up a complete Django development environment
- Create dynamic web applications with templates, views, and models
- Implement user authentication and form handling
- Deploy a Django app to production

Daily Schedule

📅 Week 1: Django Foundations

• Day 1: [🗓️] Introduction to Django & Setting Up the Development Environment
• What is Django? Why use it?
• Installing Python, Django, and setting up a virtual environment

• Creating your first Django project

• Day 2: [📁] Understanding Django Project Structure

• Exploring settings.py, urls.py, and wsgi.py
• Creating and understanding Django apps

• Running the development server

• Day 3: [👁️] Building Views and URLs

• Function-based views vs. class-based views
• Dynamic URL routing

• Returning HTTP responses and rendering templates

• Day 4: [🎨] Templates and Static Files

• Django template language (DTL)
• Template inheritance

• Managing CSS, JS, and images with staticfiles

• Day 5: [🗃️] Introduction to Django Models

• Understanding models and databases
• Defining models in Django

• Running migrations and using the ORM

• Day 6: [🛠️] Admin Interface & ModelForms

• Customizing the Django admin
• Creating forms from models

• Handling form submissions

• Day 7: [✍️] Working with Forms & User Input

• Django Form classes
• Validating form data
• Handling GET and POST requests

📅 Week 2: Django in Action

• Day 8: [🔗] Relationships in Models (ForeignKey, ManyToMany)
• Modeling one-to-many and many-to-many relationships
• Querying related objects

• Building dynamic views with related data

• Day 9: [🔄] CRUD Operations in Django

• Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations
• Building views for CRUD

• Using Django shortcuts like get_object_or_404

• Day 10: [🔐] User Authentication in Django

• Built-in authentication system
• Login, logout, and registration views

• Protecting views with @login_required

• Day 11: [📚] Class-Based Views and Generic Views

• Understanding class-based views
• Using Django’s built-in generic views

• Customizing templates and views

• Day 12: [🔌] REST API with Django REST Framework (Optional Intro)

• Introduction to APIs
• Serializing data

• Creating simple API endpoints

• Day 13: [🚀] Deployment Basics

• Preparing for production
• Setting up with PostgreSQL

• Deploying to platforms like Render, Heroku, or Railway

• Day 14: [🏁] Final Project – Build a Full Django Web App

• Build a complete app (e.g., Blog, To-Do List, or Portfolio)
• Implement models, views, templates, and forms
• Add user authentication and deploy the app

💡 Who Should Attend?

• Beginners with basic Python knowledge
• Students, developers, and tech enthusiasts in Katsina
• Anyone interested in building web applications with Python

📣 Questions?

If you have any questions about the workshop, feel free to reach out to us via:

• 📧 Email: contact@pythonkatsina.org
• 🐦 Twitter: @PythonKatsina

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