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Objectives

• Understand how to implement a data model in Django.
• Understand what a database migration is and how migrations control the relationship between the database and the app.
• Learn about the Binary Search Tree and how it is structured.
• Be able to reliably test a Django app.

Readings

• Walk through how to add and insert nodes to a binary search tree at VisuAlgo
• Code School’s Try Django Tutorial
• Writing and Running Tests in Django
• Testing in Django
• Django Testing Tools
• Testing Scenarios for Django
• Django Girls 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
• Django Testing
  • Django and UnitTest
  • setUp / teardown
  • self.client
  • Factory Boy
  • Factory Values
  • Lazy Attributes
  • Sequences
  • Testing Signaled Profile
  • Incorporating the Faker Library
  • Incorporating Test Coverage

Demo

• Writing first tests with Django

Assignments

• Implement a Binary Search Tree in Python
• Django Imager: Create the Imager Profile
• Technical Blog Post: Draft Your Post (Due Friday of Week 7)
• Today I learned...