4 videos · 2 events · 2017–2019 · 2h 19m of video
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DjangoCon US 2019 · October 18, 2019
The speakers presented practical ways to use Django and related tools: contributing ideas to Victoria’s mental-health-system review, fetching and parsing API data with Requests and JSON, and building a Linux-only Django backup command that exports models and media into archives. They showed how to translate…
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DjangoCon US 2017 · September 8, 2017
Wayne Merry argues that Django projects need focused unit tests alongside integration tests. A unit test should isolate one method, replace its dependencies with mocks or simple dummy objects, and verify both the method’s direct effects and how it calls collaborators; he demonstrates this approach…
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DjangoCon US 2017 · September 7, 2017
Kelsey Hawley described Girls Who Code’s after-school clubs and seven-week summer program, where students learned Scratch, Python, Arduino, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while building collaborative final projects and developing confidence. Eric Holscher explained that the Python Software Foundation is a community-run nonprofit that organizes PyCon,…
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DjangoCon US 2017 · September 6, 2017
The speakers presented a series of short projects and practical lessons: Fix My Django links Django exceptions to community-contributed explanations, while Zen of Django simplifies setup, secrets, dependencies, URLs, and deployment for newcomers. P-Track provides database-free, encrypted tracking pixels for email and web analytics, and…