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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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Taking advantage of pagination


Our database has a few rows in each of the tables that persist the models we have defined. However, after we start working with our API in a real-life production environment, we will have thousands of player scores, players, games, and game categories, and therefore, we will have to deal with large result sets. We can take advantage of the pagination features available in Django REST Framework to make it easy to specify how we want large results sets to be split into individual pages of data.

First, we will compose and send HTTP requests to create 10 games that belong to one of the categories we have created: 2D mobile arcade. This way, we will have a total of 12 games that persist in the database. We had 2 games and we will add 10 more:

http POST :8000/games/ name='Tetris Reloaded' game_category='2D mobile arcade' played=false release_date='2016-06-21T03:02:00.776594Z'
http POST :8000/games/ name='Puzzle Craft' game_category='2D mobile arcade' played=false...
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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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