Tuesday

Objectives

• Learn about the services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Learn to provision a web server in AWS
• Learn how to deploy a simple WSGI app to AWS.
• Be comfortable working with Django forms and form handling

Readings

Django Forms

To support creating and editing objects in Django, you’ll need to learn about Django Forms. Here are some readings to keep in mind as you progress:

• Start by learning how to work with forms in general
• Follow that up with reading about ModelForms and what they provide
• Make sure you understand form and field validation so you can ensure proper data is submitted
• Particularly complex forms, or forms which require javascript or special css, will need to utilize form assets
• You’ll want to keep a reference open for the Forms API
• Keep in mind that the custom form field you imagine may already have been created and check the Forms category on http://www.djangopackages.com

AWS and Deployment

• (Read ONLY! Don’t do this yet) Deploying a Django App to Amazon AWS
• (Read ONLY! Do not do yet!) Creating a Database Server
• Be aware of the security controls for Amazon RDS
• In particular, learn about RDS Security Groups and controlling access between RDS and EC2
• Screencasts about Django Class-Based Views: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3

Review

• Collisions in Hash Tables
• Self-balancing BST

Concepts

• First Steps into Class-Based Views
  • The TemplateView
• Django Forms
  • Form Handling in Django, and the Form-handling CBVs
• Deploying a Simple WSGI Application on AWS
  • Setup
  • Manual Configuration
  • Automation

Demo

Interacting with AWS through the web, an introduction to Amazon Web Services.

Assignments

• Deploy a WSGI app to AWS
• Django Imager: Create Views to Add Models
• Binary Search Tree: Self-Balancing
• Technical Blog Post: Draft Your Post (Due Friday)
• Today I learned...