Content-driven application
Deliverable: A multi-model application with relationships, migrations and an admin configuration, plus a written note on why each relationship is the type it is.
Course
Django
Django taught with the ORM's failure modes included — the N+1 query, the migration that will not apply — because those are what separate a tutorial project from a maintainable one.
- Duration: 4 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: intermediate
What you will be able to do
- Model a domain in Django and generate migrations that apply cleanly
- Query efficiently with the ORM and diagnose an N+1 problem
- Build authenticated, authorised views and templates
- Build a REST API with Django REST Framework, including serialisers and permissions
- Write tests that run against a real database and catch regressions
- Deploy a Django application with static files, environment configuration and a real database
Who this course is for
- Anyone comfortable with Python fundamentals
- Graduates who have completed a Python course
- Working developers moving into web backend work
- Not suitable as a first programming course
Syllabus
7 modules · 4 months
Module 1. Django foundations
- Project and app structure, and why the distinction matters
- The request-response cycle through Django
- URLs, views and templates
- Settings, environments and keeping secrets out of the repository
- The admin site, and its limits as a real interface
Module 2. Models and the ORM
- Model fields, relationships and choosing them deliberately
- Migrations, and what to do when one will not apply
- QuerySets, laziness and when a query actually executes
- select_related and prefetch_related for the N+1 problem
- Aggregation and annotation
- Raw SQL, and the cases where it is the right answer
Module 3. Views, forms and templates
- Function-based and class-based views, and choosing between them
- Forms, ModelForms and validation
- Template inheritance and reusable components
- Static files and media handling
- Messages, redirects and the post-redirect-get pattern
Module 4. Authentication and authorisation
- The user model, and customising it before you need to
- Login, logout, registration and password reset flows
- Permissions, groups and object-level access
- Protecting views and templates correctly
- Common security settings Django gives you for free
Module 5. Django REST Framework
- Serialisers and validation
- ViewSets, routers and generic views
- Authentication schemes including token and JWT
- Permissions and throttling
- Pagination, filtering and ordering
- API documentation
Module 6. Testing
- Django test client and pytest-django
- Fixtures, factories and test data
- Testing views, models and API endpoints
- Test database behaviour and isolation
Module 7. Performance and deployment
- Diagnosing slow queries with Django Debug Toolbar
- Caching strategy
- Static file collection and serving
- Gunicorn, environment variables and production settings
- Deploying with a managed PostgreSQL database
- Logging and error tracking
Tools and technologies you will use
- Python
- Django
- Django REST Framework
- PostgreSQL
- Django ORM and migrations
- pytest and Django test client
- Gunicorn and WhiteNoise
- Docker
- Git and GitHub
Projects you will build
Authenticated application
Deliverable: An application with registration, login, password reset and role-based access, with tests proving that a user cannot reach another user's data.
REST API with DRF
Deliverable: A documented API with serialisers, permissions, pagination and filtering, covered by tests running against a real database in CI.
Deployed application with query tuning
Deliverable: A deployed application with static files served correctly, plus before-and-after query counts showing an N+1 problem you found and fixed.
Where this course can take you
- Django Developer
- Python Backend Developer
- Full Stack Python Developer
- API Developer
- Software Engineer
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 4 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Share your details and an advisor will confirm the current fee.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
The ORM is the course
Django is a large framework, but the part that decides whether an application survives contact with real data is the ORM.
It is deliberately easy to use, which is the problem. A loop over a queryset that touches a related object issues one additional query per row. With twenty rows in development it is instant. With twenty thousand in production the page times out, and nothing in the code looks wrong.
So this course teaches counting queries from module two. Django Debug Toolbar,
select_related, prefetch_related, and the habit of asking how many queries a
view issues before shipping it. One of the four projects requires you to find and
fix an N+1 problem with before-and-after counts.
That single skill is worth more than any other in a Django interview.
Migrations, including when they go wrong
Most courses show migrations working. Real projects meet migrations that will not apply — a conflicting change, a field made non-nullable with existing rows, two branches that both generated one.
We cover those cases deliberately, because meeting them for the first time on a production database is an unpleasant way to learn.
What Django gives you for free
Worth being explicit about, because it is the main argument for choosing it.
Authentication, password hashing, an admin interface, CSRF protection, SQL injection protection through the ORM, migrations, and a settings system that separates environments. Assembling equivalents in a lighter framework takes weeks and you will get some of the security details wrong.
For business applications with users and a database — which is most of them — that head start is the whole point.
Honest prerequisite
You need Python already. Not a passing familiarity — comfort with functions, classes, modules and exceptions.
Django assumes all of it from the first week, and learners who arrive without it spend the course fighting the language instead of learning the framework. If that is you, our Python course first is not an upsell, it is the shorter route.
Questions
Django — frequently asked questions
Django or Flask — which should I learn?
Django if you are building an application with users, a database and an admin interface, which is most business software. It gives you authentication, migrations, an admin site and security defaults out of the box. Flask suits small services where you want to assemble your own pieces. For employability in India, Django appears in more postings.
Do I need to know Python before this course?
Yes, genuinely. This is not a first programming course. You need to be comfortable with functions, classes, modules and error handling, because Django assumes all of them from the first week. If you are starting from nothing, take our Python course first — the sequence works well.
Is Django still relevant with newer frameworks around?
Yes, particularly for applications where correctness and speed of delivery matter more than novelty. The admin site alone saves weeks on internal tools. Django also has an unusually stable release history, which is why organisations keep choosing it for software they intend to maintain for years.
Why does the course spend so long on the ORM?
Because the ORM is where Django applications go wrong quietly. A loop that looks innocent issues one query per iteration, and the page is fast in development with twenty rows and unusable in production with twenty thousand. Learning to count queries and read what the ORM actually executed is the highest-value skill in the course.
Enquire about Django
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- Python Programming
Python taught as a working tool rather than a syntax tour — you finish able to read unfamiliar code, automate real tasks, call APIs and write tests that catch your own mistakes.
- Full Stack Development
Front end, back end, databases and deployment taught as one connected system, ending with applications you have shipped to a public URL and can walk an interviewer through.
- SQL and Databases
SQL taught against a database big enough that a bad query is noticeably slow, because toy datasets hide performance entirely and performance is half of what the job tests.
Next step
Talk to a course advisor
Tell us what you want to learn and we will help you pick the right course, batch and mode.