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A unique blend of social work graduate and self-taught programmer. I wish to empower and support all who are trying to learn to code, especially women. Fan of Python and good friend with CSS.

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Fluent in Django: Get to know Django models better

May 4, 202117 min read 5.9K views

Intro Django is an MTV framework. Instead of MVC (Model, Views, Controller), it uses Model, Template, and View. The View is a Python function that takes a Web request and returns a Web response (in MVC, this would be a Controller). But the heart of y...

Fluent in Django: Get to know Django models better

Fluent in Django: 10+ Django template filters you should know

Apr 28, 202112 min read 2.6K views

Prerequisites You will need the basic knowledge of Django. If you don't feel comfortable with Django yet, try this beginner-friendly tutorial. Django template filters While tags lives between curly braces and a percent ({% tag %}), variables live bet...

Fluent in Django: 10+ Django template filters you should know

Fluent in Django: 8 Django template tags you should know

Apr 19, 202113 min read 6.6K views

Intro Django templating language (Django's default out-of-the-box templating language) comes with dozens of tags that make your template powerful and allows you to do many many things. Tags provide arbitrary logic in the rendering process and they ar...

Fluent in Django: 8 Django template tags you should know

8 explained examples of list comprehension in Python

Apr 13, 20219 min read 1.2K views

What is list comprehension List comprehension is a concise way used instead of for-loop when you want to create a new list based on another iterable (list, tuple, dictionary, set, string, generator, ...). You get to do this: [do_this(element) for ele...

8 explained examples of list comprehension in Python

Fluent in Django: Improving your application

Apr 7, 202114 min read 1.6K views

This is the second part of Fluent in Django series. We're going to upgrade the code we created in Part 1. You can find the finished code from the first part here. Prerequisites Python Basics of Django (Creating a project, Model, View, Templates, Fo...

Fluent in Django: Improving your application

Roadmap for aspiring web developers

Mar 30, 202114 min read 1.2K views

You're thinking about switching your career and become a programmer, but you have no idea where to start? Are all the buzzwords confusing and you don't know who to ask? Look no more, here's the post to help. A lot of information is gathered here. Don...

Roadmap for aspiring web developers