4 posts about Django

CS3216 at NUS

Built three fully functional web applications for the School of Computing’s flagship module in the space of 13 weeks

On the Proper Care and Feeding of REST APIs, Part II

In the first part of this article we introduced the choice of tools used to build our API. In this second part I’ll go into the details of how we used these tools, what challenges we faced, and how we overcame them.

On the Proper Care and Feeding of REST APIs - Part I

After working the full-stack for assignment 1, and purely on the frontend for assignment 3, for the final project I get the exciting task of designing and building a backend API from scratch to power the two frontends of our final project product. I’ve only ever constructed APIs twice before, and both times with toy projects that had at most one or two endpoints. This on the other hand is significantly bigger - for the first week of the project, by GitHub’s estimation, our project repository had more API documentation than code!

Django web framework: A (brief and incomplete) review

Django web framework - the good, the bad and the ugly in a mini-review after two weeks of usage