# Django Learning Path

## Week 1: Django Basics & Models

### Day 1: Introduction to Django Project Structure
- **Overview**: Understanding the fundamental structure of a Django project
- **Key Files Explored**:
- `settings.py`: Project configuration
- `urls.py`: URL routing
- `views.py`: Request handling
- `models.py`: Data models
- `templates/`: HTML templates
- `static/`: Static files (CSS, JavaScript)
- `media/`: User-uploaded files
- **Practical Step**: Setup a new Django project using `django-admin startproject myproject`

### Day 2: URLs and Routing in Django
- **Focus**: Mastering URL configuration and routing mechanisms
- **Key Concepts**:
- URL patterns and view connections
- URL path converters:
- `<int:id>`: Integer-based routing
- `<slug:slug>`: Slug-based routing
- **Advanced Technique**: Reverse URL resolution and using the `url` template tag

### Day 3: Templates and Context
- **Deep Dive**: Django Template Language (DTL)
- **Topics Covered**:
- Context passing from views to templates
- Template inheritance techniques:
- `{% extends %}`: Base template inheritance
- `{% block %}`: Define replaceable content blocks
- `{% include %}`: Modular template composition

### Day 4: Static and Media Files
- **Management**: Handling static and media resources
- **Static File Handling**:
- Managing CSS and JavaScript files
- Configuring `STATICFILES_DIRS`
- **Media File Strategies**:
- Serving user-uploaded files
- Configuring `MEDIA_URL` and `MEDIA_ROOT`

### Day 5: Django Models - Overview
- **Introduction to Data Modeling**
- **Field Types**:
- `CharField`: String storage
- `IntegerField`: Integer storage
- `DateTimeField`: Timestamp tracking
- **Relationship Modeling**:
- `OneToOne`: One-to-one relationships
- `ForeignKey`: Many-to-one relationships
- `ManyToMany`: Many-to-many relationships
- **Practical Exercise**: Creating models like `Post` and `Comment`

### Day 6: QuerySets and Model Methods
- **Database Interaction Techniques**
- **QuerySet Operations**:
- `.filter()`: Conditional querying
- `.get()`: Retrieve specific objects
- `.exclude()`: Negative filtering
- `.annotate()`: Aggregate queries
- **Advanced Modeling**:
- Custom model methods
- Model managers and custom query behaviors

### Day 7: Migrations and Database Integration
- **Database Schema Management**
- **Migration Workflow**:
- `makemigrations`: Prepare database changes
- `migrate`: Apply schema modifications
- **Advanced Migration Techniques**:
- Custom migrations
- Database schema inspection

## Week 2: Advanced Views, Forms & Authentication

### Day 8: Introduction to Class-Based Views
- **Comparative Analysis**: Function-Based Views vs Class-Based Views
- **Powerful Generic Views**:
- `ListView`: Displaying object collections
- `DetailView`: Rendering individual objects

### Day 9: Generic Views for CRUD Operations
- **Comprehensive CRUD Implementation**:
- `CreateView`: Object creation
- `UpdateView`: Object modification
- `DeleteView`: Object removal
- **Customization Techniques**: View and form behavior override

### Day 10: Django Forms
- **Form Handling Mastery**:
- Django Forms
- ModelForms
- **Advanced Form Management**:
- Validation strategies
- Error handling
- Template rendering
- CSRF protection

### Day 11: User Authentication Basics
- **Authentication System**:
- Login/logout mechanisms
- Session management
- **Implementation Techniques**:
- `LoginView`
- `LogoutView`
- `@login_required` decorator

### Day 12: Customizing User Authentication
- **User Model Enhancement**:
- Extending Django's User model
- Creating custom user models
- **Registration Flow**:
- Form validation
- User registration process

### Day 13: User Permissions and Access Control
- **Security Implementation**:
- `@permission_required` decorator
- Object-level permissions
- User groups management
- **Third-Party Integration**: Introduction to `django-guardian`

### Day 14: Hands-On Authentication Project
- **Comprehensive Authentication System**:
- Custom user registration
- Login/logout workflows
- Profile management
- Granular access control

## Week 3: APIs with Django REST Framework (DRF)

### Day 15: DRF Introduction
- **Setup and Configuration**:
- Installing Django REST Framework
- Serializer fundamentals

### Day 16: CRUD APIs with DRF
- **API Development**:
- `ListAPIView`
- `CreateAPIView`
- `RetrieveAPIView`
- **Practical Implementation**: Building APIs for existing models

### Day 17: Advanced DRF Features
- **Efficient API Design**:
- `ModelViewSet`
- `ReadOnlyModelViewSet`
- DRF Router simplification

### Day 18: Pagination and Filtering
- **API Enhancement Techniques**:
- Implementing pagination
- Query parameter filtering

### Day 19: DRF Authentication
- **Authentication Strategies**:
- Token-based authentication
- Session-based authentication

### Day 20: Hands-On RESTful API Project
- **Comprehensive API Development**:
- CRUD operations
- Pagination
- Filtering
- Authentication implementation

### Day 21: DRF Testing
- **Quality Assurance**:
- Writing tests with `APITestCase`
- Manual testing via Postman

## Week 4: Advanced Django Features

### Day 22: Middleware
- **Request/Response Processing**:
- Middleware fundamentals
- Custom middleware creation

### Day 23: Django Signals
- **Event-Driven Programming**:
- Understanding signals
- Practical signal usage (e.g., sending emails on model save)

### Day 24: File Uploads and Media Management
- **File Handling**:
- `FileField` and `ImageField`
- Media file serving
- Cloud storage with `django-storages`

### Day 25: Caching Strategies
- **Performance Optimization**:
- Caching approaches
- Redis and Memcached integration
- View and template fragment caching

### Day 26: Asynchronous Django
- **Modern Concurrency**:
- Async views
- Asynchronous ORM queries

### Day 27: Django Channels
- **Real-Time Web Applications**:
- WebSocket implementation
- Building a chat application

### Day 28: Performance Optimization
- **Database Efficiency**:
- `select_related` and `prefetch_related`
- Database indexing
- Query profiling

### Day 29: Deployment Best Practices
- **Production Readiness**:
- Security configurations
- Gunicorn/uWSGI with Nginx
- Environment management

### Day 30: Final Full-Stack Django Project
- **Comprehensive Implementation**:
- User authentication
- CRUD operations
- RESTful API
- File uploads
- Caching
- Cloud deployment

## Additional Resources and Recommendations

### Learning Tips
- **Practice consistently**: Build small projects alongside the learning path
- **Use official documentation**: Django and DRF have excellent, comprehensive docs
- **Join community forums**: Reddit's r/django and Django Forum are great resources

### Recommended Tools
- **Development Environment**:
- PyCharm
- VS Code with Python extensions
- **Version Control**: Git and GitHub
- **Virtual Environment**: venv or Conda

### Complementary Skills to Develop
- **Frontend Technologies**:
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript (especially for dynamic interactions)
- React or Vue.js for modern frontend development
- **Database Knowledge**:
- PostgreSQL
- Database design principles
- **Deployment and DevOps**:
- Docker
- Cloud platforms (Heroku, AWS, DigitalOcean)
- CI/CD principles

### Continuous Learning Path
1. Master the 30-day curriculum
2. Build complex, real-world projects
3. Contribute to open-source Django projects
4. Explore advanced topics and specialized Django packages

**Remember**: Consistency and hands-on practice are key to mastering Django!