3. Week 7 Overview

    Fri 12 June 2015

    Plan for the week

    • Monday: Models in detail. Field types, many-to-many relationships, QuerySets, Q objects, updating and deleting, aggregation, custom managers, PostgreSQL. django-extensions library.
    • Tuesday: Templates in detail. HTML, CSS, static files, tags, filters, inheritance, blocks, humanization, Bootstrap.
    • Wednesday: Views in detail. Core exceptions, the request object, class- based views vs function-based views, generic views, HTTP status codes, cookies.
    • Thursday: Forms in detail. Model forms, non-model forms, HTML 5 field types, formsets, custom form builders, custom validation, uploading files.

    Learning objectives

    • Expand upon current knowledge to build new Django applications and features
    • Determine which model field types to use to represent data
    • Understand the difference between 1:1, 1:n, and n:n relationships
    • Distinguish when to use each relationship type in modeling data
    • Translate English descriptions of data queries into Django ORM queries
    • Use PostgreSQL to store Django data
    • Build new methods on query managers
    • Use django-extensions to make development easier
    • Extrapolate on the example of django-extensions to use other Django plugins
    • Build structured documents using HTML
    • Make use of Bootstrap and hand-written CSS to style your application
    • Organize templates for reuse
    • Show the functions of the request object in Views
    • Use exceptions to handle common web response
    • Explain the difference between function-based views and class-based views
    • Select generic views from Django to speed development
    • Use cookies to maintain state
    • Summarize what standard HTTP status codes mean
    • Select the right HTTP status code for a response
    • Build robust forms for receiving and validating data
    • Expand on the built-in validation to make custom data validations

  8. Week 6 Overview

    Sat 06 June 2015

    Plan for the week:

    • Monday: K-Means Clustering; Mean Shift Clustering if we have time; choosing the right machine learning technique.
    • Tuesday: Begin learning about Django; set up your first Django project; learn how to store objects in a database; see the Django admin.
    • Wednesday: Learn how to customize the Django admin; learn about hooking URLs to behavior with views and templates; learn basic HTML.
    • Thursday: Continue learning HTML; learn how to create forms; learn how to install a CSS framework for use.

    Learning objectives:

    • Machine Learning
      • Recalling how K-Means clustering works
      • Using the Scikit-Learn clustering algorithms
      • Selecting an appropriate machine learning algorithm
    • Django
      • Creating a new Django application
      • Translating Python objects to database tables
      • Identifying commonalities between Pandas methods and database methods
      • Explaining what a database is
      • Explaining what a model is
      • Using the Django admin
      • Structuring your Django admin to reflect your data
      • Creating regular expressions to map URLs to views
      • Explaining what a view is
      • Designing simple views
      • Remembering and using basic HTML
      • Extrapolating from basic HTML how to create templates
      • Creating forms
      • Distinguishing when to use GET vs POST
      • Using a CSS framework

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