Tuesday

Objectives

• Learn about how authentication and authorization work in a Django app
• Learn more about how to walk through a Trie Tree
• Solidify what we’ve covered over the past week
• Pitch our projects for project week

Readings

Django Security

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

Amazon RDS

• Create a Web Server and an Amazon RDS Database

• Setting up Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 14.04

• Screencasts about Django Class-Based Views:

  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

Trie Trees

• Trie Tree (Wikipedia)
• Trie Trees

Review

Concepts

• 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
• Amazon RDS and Deployment Prep
  • Provision an AWS RDS Instance with PostgreSQL
  • Prepare settings.py for Deployment
  • Prepare EC2 Instance to pull and start app

• Trie Tree Traversals

Demo

• Setting up EC2 and RDS to communicate with each-other

Assignments

• Group Project: Pick an Idea
• Deploy the Imager app to AWS
• Trie: Traversals
• Django Imager: Complete Front-End (Due Friday)
• Technical Blog Post: Publish Your Post (Due Friday Week 9)
• Today I learned...