Django Starter Lab · Lesson 6 of 10

Models and Storing Structured Data

Meet Django models as the structured way to define and store application data.

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What you will learn

Explain what structured data means in a beginner web application.
Describe what a Django model class represents.
Explain how model fields describe the parts of saved records.
Distinguish a model definition from an individual saved record.
Read a small model example and identify what each field represents.
Choose clear beginner field names for a simple real-world model.

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21 minute lesson with 8 sections, 4 exercises, 4 checkpoint questions, and 1 homework submission.

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