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This is a Python tutorial designed to introduce senior students to Python programming with Django. The motivation behind this tutorial is that senior students often have the ability to learn things on their own, but could use a hand learning things faster. In this tutorial, I will teach you the Django stack... which is everything you need to win a Hackathon or build your first professional web application. The tutorial is designed to teach some key concepts in Python, HTML/CSS and Django quite quickly using concrete examples each week for 5 weeks. Each example will be designed in a way that students can modify the file to add additional functionality. Material from each week is provided in a folder along side some written documentation. There is also a challenge in each folder... if you can complete each challenge on your own, you are probably able to develop Django do this professionally (though not necessarily masterfully).
This tutorial is very much a work in progress and is designed to be used by both the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie, and the wider community. For the 2017 run through, we will be collaborating with the students from CSCI 2133 and adding more content each week.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: COLIN CONRAD
Colin is an Interdisciplinary PhD student at Dalhousie University, studying through the Rowe School of Business, Faculty of Computer Science, and Department of Psychology/Neuroscience. Colin is in the business of building computer systems that automate advanced human behaviour (eg. Psychologists, Higher Educators, Poets, Finance Majors). His thesis work concerns applying predictive analytics to electrical brain data generated during e-learning sessions. Feel free to send him a message any time concerning this work, or the tutorial.