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    • Building Web Applications in Django

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    About Building Web Applications in Django

    In this course, you will learn how Django communicates with a database through model objects. You will explore Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for database access and how Django models implement this pattern. We will review the Object-Oriented (OO) pattern in Python. You will learn basic Structured Query Language (SQL) and database modeling, including one-to-many and many-to-many relationships and how they work in both the SQL and Django models. You will learn how to use the Django console and scripts to work with your application objects interactively.

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    • Information Technology
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    It's hard for me to know if my struggles in this course was from how it was taught or my own inability to learn & understand the material. I have done the 5 course Python for Everybody prerequisite as well as 5 other Python courses, & the first Django course in this specialization, however I was unprepared for this course. This is the first course of all of the online ones I've taken where I didn't really feel like I learned much. In order to get through the course I more-so just had to type exactly what was typed in the assignments & if I copied everything exactly then sure I'd pass, but I don't actually understand what I'm doing. I'm not aware of a space that I can just practice Django, where-as there are so many places I can just open up Python & practice it, & I think this was a big contributing factor in my lack of confidence in Django.
    Way too much of jumping around hoops from from the autograder page instructions, django tutorial page instructions. Using Pythonanywhere is detrimental in learning django. What a mistake. Dr Chuck is great for all the other courses. This one just confuses the hell out. Its about time this course specialization gets a revamp.
    there is no proper guidance about how i can submit my assignments. Quizzes would have been much convenient to solve instead of submitting link to website. None of my assignments were graded because it didnt accept the format i read all the instructions but the instructions were not clear.
    I was excited to see the real action of creating a project but it seems to be disappointing to have onl;y slides and explanation rather than practical
    Instructor is great. I think instructor should also change labs from Vote, Choice to something new as it is sometimes confusing.
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    I like Dr. Chucks Python classes, but this is not the one I would recommend. Videos are too long, not much practice, only following the oficial tutorial
    I learnt a lot because I knew nothing and the course explains a good deal of stuff. This is my first couse on the subject and I am somewhat still lost. I feel I know loads of new stuff but I am not too confident to create my own website yet. I feel Django is like learning to set up a printer, and then you print as much as you want. However, that is quite complex and at the moment my printer is very very basic for the website I have in mind to build!

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