Django Masterclass Projects

I recently completed the Django Masterclass through Udemy, covering 9 full projects that took me from Django fundamentals to advanced features like real-time WebSockets and payment integration.

The motivation for taking this course was to solidify my coding skills and learn the "right way" to use the MVT architecture. I have been coding in Python for 3+ years now. I started coding by taking an online bootcamp and another course, and then I just started building stuff. I built lots of projects using Flask and SQLAlchemy, without understanding the right way to structure projects. I built things that worked, but definitely were not structured properly or maintainable. So I took this course both to learn Django, but also to learn how to approach projects in a more standard and approachable way.

The course covered a lot of ground. I learned the core Django stack including the ORM, class-based and function-based views, and proper MVT architecture. On the frontend side, I got hands-on with TailwindCSS, Bootstrap, and Chart.js for data visualization. I also dove into more advanced topics like Django REST Framework for APIs, Django Channels for WebSockets, Stripe for payments, and web scraping with Beautiful Soup.

The projects were diverse and practical. I built e-commerce and marketplace apps with cart functionality and payment processing. I created social media and chat applications with real-time features using WebSockets. I also built utility apps like a food tracker with data visualization, a resume generator with PDF exports, and a web scraper for pulling data from external sites.