Introduction to web programming

• Introduction to web programming in python using cgi (15 min)

  • Implementing a simple application that covers

    • fetching data (GET method), form submissions (POST method)

    • database connection

• Introduction of django framework (15 min)

  • Implementing the same application using django

• Brief introduction to other features of django (10 mins)

The talk aims to give an introduction to the web programming using python. We will start with the python cgi module, using which a simple application that covers GET & POST HTTP methods and connecting to database using python modules will be demonstrated.

After that we will demonstrate how to implement the same application using web framework, we will be using django for this.

Then a brief introduction to the other features in django.

Closing note on other available web frameworks in python.

Shabda is co-founder of Agiliq Solutions. He works primarily with Python and Django. Prior to Agiliq Solutions, he worked at Oracle India, on Oracle property manager, to write the calculation engine behind it. linkedin profile: http://in.linkedin.com/in/shabda

Ashok Raavi is a developer at Agiliq Solutions with 3+ years of work experience in developing web applications. linkedin profile: http://in.linkedin.com/in/ashokraavi