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Notes For Django Beginners by Samir Phuyal

This document provides an overview of key concepts for learning Django 2 for beginners. It covers installing Django using pip, creating a virtual environment, starting a Django project and app, model fields, migrations, superusers, Jinja2 syntax, including partials, and search queries using Q objects. The goal is to introduce the basic workflow and features of Django.

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Notes For Django Beginners by Samir Phuyal

This document provides an overview of key concepts for learning Django 2 for beginners. It covers installing Django using pip, creating a virtual environment, starting a Django project and app, model fields, migrations, superusers, Jinja2 syntax, including partials, and search queries using Q objects. The goal is to introduce the basic workflow and features of Django.

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Notes 
Learn Django 2 for beginners 
 

What will we cover? 


1. Using pip 
2. Creating a Virtual Environment 
3. Activating Virtual Environment 
4. Starting Django project 
5. Creating an app 
6. Different Model Fields 
7. Making migrations 
8. Creating a superuser 
9. Jinja 2 Syntax 
10. Including partials 
11. Doing Search Queries 

Note:​ ​I will be adding more notes always! 

Using pip 
To install packages 

pip install django 

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To uninstall packages 

pip uninstall django 


Note:​ ​You can find more packages at ​https://pypi.org/ 

 
 

Creating Virtual Environment 


On Unix or Mac OS 

python3 -m venv name-env 

 
On Windows 

python -m venv name-env 

Activating Virtual Environment 


On Windows 

source name-env\Scripts\activate 

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On Unix or Mac OS 

source name-env/bin/activate 
 

Starting Django Project 

django-admin startproject <name> 


 

Creating an app 

python manage.py startapp <name> 


 

Different ModelFields 

CharField(max_length=None) 

DateTimeField(auto_now=False,auto_now_add=False) 

EmailField(max_length=None) 

FileField(upload_to=None,max_length=100) 

ImageField(upload_to=None,max_length=100) 

IntegerField() 

SlugField(max_length=50) 

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TextField(max_length=1000) 

URLField(max_length=100) 

ForeignKey(ModelName,on_delete=models.CASCADE) 
 

Making Migrations 

python manage.py makemigrations 

python manage.py migrate 


 

Creating a SuperUser 

python manage.py createsuperuser 


 

Jinja 2 Syntax 

- Accessing Value {{ name }} 


- Setting url navigation {% url ‘ ’ %} 
- Loading static {% load static %} 

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- Using Conditional: 

{% if expression %} 

… 

{% elif expression %} 

… 

{% else %} 

…  

{% endif %} 

- Looping using for loop 

{% for item in items %} 

…  

{% endfor %} 
 
 
 

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Including partials 

{% include ‘path_to_partial’ %} 


 

Doing Search Queries 

from django.db.models import Q

Q(ModelField__startswith=’term’) 

Q(ModelField__icontains=’term’) 

Q(ModelField__iexact=’term’) 

Q(ModelField__lt=20) # less than 

Q(ModelField__lte=20) # less than or equal to 

Q(ModelField__gt=20) # greater than 

Q(ModelField__gte=20) # greater than or equal to 


 

Note:​ ​More notes will be added in the future! 

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