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Django 4 By Example

You're reading from   Django 4 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813051
Length 766 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Preface 1. Building a Blog Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Implementing Social Authentication 6. Sharing Content on Your Website 7. Tracking User Actions 8. Building an Online Shop 9. Managing Payments and Orders 10. Extending Your Shop 11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop 12. Building an E-Learning Platform 13. Creating a Content Management System 14. Rendering and Caching Content 15. Building an API 16. Building a Chat Server 17. Going Live 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Building the course models

Your e-learning platform will offer courses on various subjects. Each course will be divided into a configurable number of modules, and each module will contain a configurable number of contents. The contents will be of various types: text, files, images, or videos. The following example shows what the data structure of your course catalog will look like:

Subject 1
  Course 1
    Module 1
      Content 1 (image)
      Content 2 (text)
    Module 2
      Content 3 (text)
      Content 4 (file)
      Content 5 (video)
      ...

Let’s build the course models. Edit the models.py file of the courses application and add the following code to it:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Subject(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    slug = models.SlugField(max_length=200, unique=True)
    class Meta:
        ordering = ['title']
    def __str__(self):
        return self...
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