Django Developer Roadmap

Who this is for: anyone who wants to build complete web applications in Python, from the database to the page the user sees. Django is a good first framework because it includes the admin, authentication, forms and an ORM, so you build real features instead of wiring libraries together. Plan for 10–12 hours a week over four to six months.

Why we teach it this way. This website, including its client portal and GST billing, is built with Django, so the roadmap follows the order we would use to train a junior developer on a real project: enough Python and HTTP to understand a request, then Django's core, then the database work that keeps pages fast, then APIs, and finally deployment.

How to use it: build one project that grows with you. Start with the blog in stage 2, add an inventory or orders module in stage 3, expose it through a REST API in stage 4, and deploy the whole thing to a real server with HTTPS in stage 5. A live URL on your resume is worth more than any certificate.

What interviews look like: questions on the request/response cycle, how the ORM turns into SQL (and the N+1 query problem), CSRF protection, migrations, and a walkthrough of a project you have deployed.

Common mistakes: putting business logic in templates, running with DEBUG=True in production, never using select_related or prefetch_related, and committing secret keys to GitHub. Stage 5 covers each of these.