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Hey everyone 👋
I’m Harsh, a non-CS beginner learning Python, Django, and DevOps from scratch.
This is my first dev post — documenting my progress, mistakes, fixes, and what finally started making sense.
I’m sharing this to keep myself accountable and to connect with other beginners who are figuring things out at a time.
🟢 Small Wins This Week
- Got my first virtual environment working(.venv)
- Installed Django successfully
- Created my first project
- Created my first app
- Understood the Django project structure — what settings.py,urls.py, and manage.py actually do
- Connected URLs → views.py → HttpResponse
- Learned how HTTP requests & responses actually work
- Explored HTTP status codes (100–599)
- Created my first custom error page in Django
- Got verified on X and decided to share my dev journey publicly
- Small progress >>> no progress.
🔵 Concepts That Finally Made Sense
1. How project-level urls.py and app-level urls.py work together
- project/urls.py is the master router
- Each app can have its own urls.py for modular routing
- The project routes traffic to the app using include()
So basically:
project urls.py → sends specific URL paths → app urls.py → sends to view
2. Using regex / patterns in URLs (my favorite part of the week)
I learned how URL patterns can capture:
- path parameters like /blog/12/
- query parameters like ?search=django
- regex patterns to validate or structure routes
Things like:
re_path(r'^article/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/$', views.article)
This was the moment I realised how flexible Django routing truly is.
Django gives you structure and rules — and honestly, that feels good as a beginner.
🎯 My Goals for Week 2
- Build my first Django app from scratch
- Learn Git & GitHub properly
- Try a simple DevOps workflow (maybe Docker or CI/CD basics)
- Post daily progress on X + weekly logs here on DEV
- Stay consistent, not perfect
💬 Closing Thoughts
If you're also learning — especially as a non-CS beginner — I’d love to connect.
Let’s build, break things, fix them, and grow together.
You can find me on X for daily updates.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by PyOps Lab
PyOps Lab | Sciencx (2025-11-29T11:44:55+00:00) My First Week Learning Python & Django — Notes From a Non-CS Beginner. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/11/29/my-first-week-learning-python-django-notes-from-a-non-cs-beginner/
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