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Things you need to know before learning django.

The django framework is a web framework used to build web applications.It is also known as the framework for perfectionist with a deadline.The most trendy and popular python framework for web development.
You might be wondering what are the topics or things you should know before learning django.
First you must know the python programming language fundamentals.
what are these fundamentals?

  1. variables
  2. list, tuples and dictionary
  3. functions
  4. class especially how to inherit from another class properly
  5. Understand object oriented programming
  6. You should also have a basic understanding of html, css and javascript it will come handy when you are writing your models that will be translated to an html element.
  7. know the GET and POST request what they mean and when to use them.
  8. You also need to understand database and sql like foreignkeys, relationship between tables and how they map to your python model.
  9. what a virtual environment is.
  10. why django is called an MVT framework.
  11. learn to use git and the django documentation.

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