Monday

Objectives

• Learn about how authentication and authorization work in a Django application
• Become comfortable working with Django forms and form handling
• Be able to understand how a basic sorting algorithm works and can be implemented

Readings

• Django Security
• Is Django’s Built-In Security Enough?
• Read about using Django’s Authentication Systems

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

Concepts

• Django Forms
  • Form Handling in Django, and the Form-handling CBVs
  • Forms and the WRRC
• Django Auth-Auth & Security
  • What is Authentication?
  • Authentication in Django
  • AuthN with Decorators
  • AuthN vs AuthZ
  • How Does Django Grant Permissions (AuthZ)?
  • Auth-Auth in Class-based Views
  • Security at View/Template Interface

• Bubble Sort

Demo

Bubble sort!

Assignments

• Group Project: Pitch Ideas
• Django Imager: Create Views to Add Models
• Django Imager: Create Views to Edit Models
• Django Imager: Complete Front-End (Due Monday Week 9)
• Automate Deploying Imager with Ansible (Due Friday Week 9)
• Today I learned...