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Published inApr 2024
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ISBN-139781805125457
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Antonio Melé
Antonio Melé
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Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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Displaying the catalog of courses

You might be eager to get to rendering and caching but there are a few items we must set up before we can do that. Let’s start with the course catalog. For your course catalog, you have to build the following functionalities:

  • List all available courses, optionally filtered by subject
  • Display a single course overview

This will allow students to see all the courses available on the platform and enroll in those they are interested in. Edit the views.py file of the courses application and add the following code:

from django.db.models import Count
from .models import Subject
class CourseListView(TemplateResponseMixin, View):
    model = Course
    template_name = 'courses/course/list.html'
    def get(self, request, subject=None):
        subjects = Subject.objects.annotate(
            total_courses=Count('courses')
        )
        courses = Course.objects.annotate(
            total_modules=Count...
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Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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