Monday

Objectives

• Learn how to connect a GitHub project to TravisCI to enable testing and coverage reporting on push.
• Learn about the Binary Search Tree and how it is structured.
• Understand how to implement a data model in Django.

Readings

• Walk through how to add and insert nodes to a binary search tree at VisuAlgo
• Travis CI Tutorial: Getting Started
• Code School’s Try Django Tutorial

These readings will support your work on the Data Model for our Django Imager website.

• Django Models API
• Django Model Managers
• Django’s Signal Framework, Built-In Signals and Signal Handling (You’ll also want to read up on using the new App Config system to register signals and signal handlers)
• Django Testing (familiarize yourself both with writing and running tests and with the tools Django provides for testing.
• Using Dynamic Test Fixtures with Factory Boy (in particular pay attention to using Factory Boy with Django)
• Django Migrations

Review

Concepts

• Django: Model Basics
  • Starting a Django Project
  • Managing Django
  • Exploring Django’s Models
  • For Homework
  • Wrap Up
• Binary Search Tree
  • Definition
  • Attributes
  • Operations
• Automate Tests with Travis CI
  • Automation to the Rescue
  • Configuring Travis
  • Next Steps

Demo

• Connecting a GitHub Project to TravisCI

Assignments

• Walk Through the Django Tutorial
• Today I learned...
• Implement a Binary Search Tree in Python (Due Tuesday)
• Django Imager: Create a Data Model (Due Friday)