Django Framework Tutorials and Courses

This is among the latest and most updated Django framework courses on Udemy and is best suited for Django beginners. In this course, you will learn to build a fully functional blog website from scratch using Python Django framework, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. From a content perspective, this course covers below topics –

• Installing Django, understanding project structure, URLs, requests, and responses.
• Templates, static files, image, and files handling, creating models.
• Data modeling including one to many and many to many relationships.
• Interacting with database using Django models
• Working with and creating Django admin screens for your application
• User inputs, forms, and data validations using Django out-of-the-box forms handling.
• Session management and deploying the application for production use.
• And everything else you need to make a production-ready website.

We recommend this course to beginners who have some knowledge of Python, no Django experience required.

This is another good beginner Django course on Udemy and teaches you the Django framework from the ground up. The course covers full-stack development by building 3 websites using Django, CSS, HTML, Bootstrap 4, JavaScript, and other web technologies. You will build a personal portfolio website, a to-do list manager, and a random password generator. You will also learn to deploy the website using an online tool called Python Anywhere. Nick Walter covers topics like forms validation, models, working with databases, dynamic URLs, authentication, working with files, templates, etc. in an easy and detailed manner. We recommend this course to beginners who are preparing to get a junior web developer job in the Python ecosystem.

This course is for advanced-level developers who want to go a step further to build and deploy REST API with Django in Python. The instructor covers many advanced topics like local Docker container setup, developing using Test Driven Development, working with Travis-CI (continuous integration) for code management, best practices like PEP-8, and a lot more. In the end, you will learn to create a REST API for uploading and viewing images, to say the least. We recommend this course to experienced Python developers who already have some Django knowledge to get the maximum benefit.

This is Django specialization offered by the University of Michigan via Coursera. The specialization consists of 4 different courses that train you to create rich web applications using Python Django framework, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, Web Services, CSS, SQL, and HTML. The individual courses included in the specialization are as below:

• Web Application Technologies and Django
• Building Web Applications in Django
• Django Features and Libraries
• Using JavaScript, JQuery, and JSON in Django

By end of this specialization, you will have created and deployed a website to display classified ads with features to store and view ads that include photos, options to mark favorites, and searching through the ads store. We recommend this best Django course to anyone who has some Python background and wants to gain a thorough knowledge of web application development from scratch to production deployment.

This free Django tutorial from freeCodeCamp is a great option for beginners to learn to start building websites with the Python Django framework. The tutorial provides almost around 4h of video content at a faced pace and covers almost everything from installation of Django on Mac, PC, or Linux to hosting the website in a production environment. The course is divided into 47 chapters that include installation, basic project setup, Django models, URL routing, Django Templates, Context rendering in Template, Django forms, dynamic URL linking, validations, custom mixin, and a lot more. We recommend this tutorial to anyone with basic knowledge of Python, HTML, and CSS, given it is free, you can just go spend few minutes and decide for yourself if it suits your learning style.

Django helps you create websites fast with its ready-to-use features and modules. This course from Celeb Smith helps you learn Django from scratch by creating a fresh project and building a fully functional website. You will learn to create a front-end using Django with CSS and JavaScript, querying the database, work with URL handlers of Django, creating and understanding data models, and much more. You can get a monthly subscription on LinkedIn for free (first month) which makes this Django course free for you. We recommend beginners to subscribe and check out the content, spend an hour or so, and see the workings of Django.

This is another good and short 2 hours Django course for beginners. This course is all about getting started with Django and getting the hang of it, nothing like a very comprehensive specialization that goes on for weeks. You get to learn the basics of creating a simple website using the Python Django framework. Key features used include templates and URL mapping, working with model classes, HTML forms, and the admin screens. We recommend this short course to anyone who has some knowledge of HTML and Python, else these 2 hours would not yield much for you.

This is one of the most comprehensive step-by-step courses for teaching full-stack web development to beginners. The course includes many HD video lectures, fully functional application code, Exercises, downloadable resources, slides for better clarity, and much more. In this course, you will learn to create a production-grade fully functional website using Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and other relevant technologies. You would also learn about browser-server communication, HTTP requests, building backend server, working with models and template-based views. We recommend this course to absolute beginners as well as Python programmers who want to get into the world of web application development.

This is an instructor-led full certification course to master the Python Django framework from Edureka. Edureka currently runs weekend batches so you can check and schedule classes as per the availability. The certification teaches you to create real-world web applications using the Python Django framework. The certification program covers Django REST framework, Django jQuery, Ajax, Django models, basics of Python, and website building in general. We recommend this course to all beginners who like to be in interactive classes and learn along with others in a group.

Free Django tutorial here at Djangogirls.org is a good option for beginners. You will learn to build your very own blog website in this tutorial, from scratch.  The tutorial is very comprehensive and covers all topics like Python installation, Django setup, how Django works, your first Django project, Dynamic URLs, templates, Django ORM, forms, validations, and much more. Currently, this Django tutorial is available in text format, but the instructors are working on creating free videos as well that you can watch sitting at home.

This free Django YouTube video tutorial is one of the best tutorial series available for free out there in the wild. In this tutorial, Dennis Ivy teaches you to create a fully functional customer management app from scratch in Django and Python. There are 24 videos that amount to around 10+ hours of total on demand video time, that you can cover on your own pace. Various topics covered in this free tutorial are as below –

• Brief introduction of Django, Getting Started
• Views, URLs, templates, and Inheritance in Django
• Static files, images, models, and admin panel
• Database queries templates manipulation and rendering
• Dynamic URLs, CRUD operations
• Login, Authentication, Forms, table search, filter, and more
• Django Signals, customer profiles, emails sending, templates.
• File storage and deployment on Heroku server

We strongly recommend this free YouTube Django video series to all beginners, given that it helps you create and deploy an application from scratch.

This is another fast-paced free Django course on LinkedIn, free since you get a 1-month free subscription and take as many courses as you want. In this course, author Nick Walter runs through many concepts like database setup, website layout, setting up URL paths, creating website pages in Django, and connecting it all. In the end, you will create a functional personal portfolio website from scratch in Django.

This is the fourth and last course in the series Django for Everybody Specialization on Coursera from the University of Michigan. This course focuses lesser on Django but more on how JavaScript is used with Django in a dynamic modern web application. In the application you build to learn the concepts, Django makes the server and JavaScript/jQuery take care of the front end in the browser. The course teaches you the best ways to manipulate the frontend by fetching and updating data from the backend i.e., Django server. You also learn to use JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) in detail while interacting with the database via the application model.

This is the third course in Django for Everybody Specialization on Coursera from the University of Michigan. In this course, you learn to use many Django features in the web application you are building in the Django specialization. Django brings built-in login functionality; the instructor teaches you how to use and configure it the best. The instructor also covers Django sessions and how cookies are used to maintain sessions. Working with forms using Django built-in functionality is also covered in-depth and you learn to create, edit, and delete form flow.

This is the second course in Django for Everybody specialization on Coursera and focuses on how Django application communicates with the database. You will learn to build scalable and reusable models for database interaction. The instructor also gets one step further on structured query language and database modeling including one to many and many to many relationships. Few other key topics covered in depth in this course include Django Template Language (DTL), object-oriented programming fundamentals and use, building forms in HTML and templates.

Django’s official website provides a complete reference to the Python Django framework specifications. Any new module, feature, or upgrade to the framework is first covered on the official website. While it is good to subscribe to one or more courses from professional instructors, but official specifications get in very handy to check out the very basics. The best thing about Django official documentation is that it covers web app development from scratch in a multi-part free Django tutorial series. It also covers some advanced topics like writing reusable apps and modules in Django, creating patches for the Django framework itself, and a lot more.

This course is part of the Django for Everybody specialization on Coursera and focuses mainly on web application basics and how Django can be used to create rich web applications. You will learn everything related to website building including GET/POST/redirect, HTML language, MVC pattern in Django, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and much more. During the course, you will also deploy the application on an online project builder like Python Anywhere to test and run a basic web application. This is a good course to get your basics right in Django and web application development as it includes basics like SQL, installation, and setup of Python and Django, request/response cycle between browser and server, and much more. 

Web application development includes many moving parts and multiple technologies to work together. This book Tango with Django covers everything in detail and teaches aspects of full-stack web application development. During this course, you will learn to build a simple web application that works as a directory of different categories and links. You will also learn to deploy the application on PythonAnywhere hosting service. While the instructor focuses more on the Django framework, you also get to learn about HTML5, CSS3, working with external APIs, CSS, JavaScript, Git version control, and Python 3.

This is a very comprehensive Django beginners course available via Codingnomads. The course covers the depths of the Django framework including the basics of Python, Django REST APIs, Heroku deployment, Azure cloud deployment, and other related web technologies. You will build 6 portfolio projects while learning Django by following this course. It brings in a total of 180 hours of learning material including 12+ hours of video content, many lab assignments, and much more.

This one is more like Django specifications in a more summarized manner as compared to official Django documentation. You can go through this once to understand a different perspective, check out some code snippets. To all coding beginners, this should serve as a quick reference and a fast-paced guide, but for comprehensive learning from scratch, we recommend going for a good professional course mentioned in the list here.