A workshop by Haris Ibrahim K. V.

Django has matured and evolved over the years to become the framework of choice for many Python programmers out there. It makes web developement easy and painless by providing tons of utilities out of the box.

Redis is ubiquitous in the current industry. The joy of using a fast and reliable NoSQL database is inexplicable once you have already gone through that phase of carefully designing all your tables while using a SQL database.

The tutorial will cover writing a Django application from step zero. The idea is to allow a full hands on experience developing a Django web application. However, the experience has to be gratifying and something that can be built upon. Hence, over the process, we will cover fetching tweets from Twitter using the Twython framework (boilerplate code) and visualizing it using Chart.js (boilerplate code). Redis will be introduced to cover three simple use cases. Implementing a leaderboard, implementing a counter and implementing cache.

There are two to five lines of code which makes a huge difference and impact on your web application. Twython and Chart are going to be introduced as bolierplate codes since it is so easy to tweak and learn it. The idea of this workshop is to give a solid foundation in using Django and Redis together. In Django itself, we will cover using models, forms, implementing views, how ORM works, routing, templates, and how all these tie together during the flow of development.

Here is the list of packages required for the workshop:

• Python 2.7
• Sqlite 3
• Redis 2.8
• Chart.js (http://www.chartjs.org/)
• Have a virtualenv (http://virtualenv.readthedocs.org) up and running with the packages metioned in requirements.txt
• Any Linux distro (preferable Ubuntu). If you have Windows, plase install VirtualBox with Ubuntu!