Inside RealPython's Course Creation

What goes into making video courses at Real Python? How should you build an installable Django application? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

This week, the Real Python Podcast is experiencing several firsts. We recorded a show in front of a live audience for the very first time, and it happened in Dublin, Ireland—a place neither of us had visited before. I also got to meet Christopher Trudeau in person for the first time.

We’re sharing that live recording from the conference in this episode. We discuss how we create video courses at Real Python, and Christopher talks about his tutorial on how to write an installable Django application.

We also share a few summaries of the talks from the conference and projects from the Django community, including a news roundup, how decisions are made inside the Django Foundation, ways you can help with reviews, using the Django ORM with Marimo notebooks, maintaining a data-oriented project, how to get foreign keys horribly wrong, a project for simple deployment, and a project for adding extra buttons inside the Django Admin.

We would like to thank the audience members from Ireland who heard about DjangoCon by listening to the podcast. Thank you for attending the conference and for taking the time to say hello. We also appreciate those who asked us insightful questions at the end of the show.

We enjoyed exploring Dublin and recording the show in front of such a welcoming audience. We learned a ton from all the great talks given at the conference and made some new connections for future interviews.

This episode is sponsored by AMD.

Topics:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction
• 00:03:59 – PEP 770 – Improving measurability of Python packages with Software Bill-of-Materials
• 00:04:22 – PEP 736 – Shorthand syntax for keyword arguments at invocation
• 00:04:46 – PEP 661 – Sentinel Values
• 00:05:21 – Pydantic v2.11 Released
• 00:05:41 – How We Build Video Courses at Real Python
• 00:17:17 – Sponsor: AMD
• 00:17:56 – How to Write an Installable Django App
• 00:22:21 – Attendees from Ireland who heard about the conference from us
• 00:23:09 – Django needs you! (to do code review)
• 00:24:12 – How we make decisions in Django
• 00:26:07 – Marimo: Sharing the joys of the Django ORM with Python Notebooks
• 00:27:30 – Steering Council Introduction
• 00:28:17 – Video Course Spotlight
• 00:29:45 – Data-Oriented Django Drei
• 00:31:04 – How to get Foreign Keys horribly wrong in Django
• 00:32:17 – Converting integer fields to bigint using Django migrations at scale
• 00:33:17 – django-simple-deploy
• 00:34:57 – django-admin-extra-buttons
• 00:37:51 – What goes into creating the podcast?
• 00:44:04 – How does RP decide what Learning Paths to create?
• 00:48:30 – Python background when starting with a framework
• 00:54:46 – Django getting started resources at Real Python
• 00:55:34 – Thanks and goodbye

News:

• PEP 770 – Improving measurability of Python packages with Software Bill-of-Materials (Accepted)
• PEP 736 – Shorthand syntax for keyword arguments at invocation (Rejected)
• PEP 661 – Sentinel Values (Deferred)
• Pydantic v2.11 Released

Show Links:

• DjangoCon Europe 2025
• How We Build Video Courses at Real Python
• How to Write an Installable Django App – Real Python
• Django needs you! (to do code review) - Sarah Boyce
• How we make decisions in Django - Carlton Gibson
• Marimo and Jupyter: Sharing the joys of the Django ORM with Python Notebooks - Chris Adams
• Steering Council Introduction- Emma Delescholle
• Data-Oriented Django Drei - Adam Johnson
• How to get Foreign Keys horribly wrong in Django - Haki Benita
• Turn back time: Converting integer fields to bigint using Django migrations at scale - Tim Bell

Projects:

• django-simple-deploy - readthedocs
• django-admin-extra-buttons - PyPI

Additional Links:

• django-awl
• Episode #230: marimo: Reactive Notebooks and Deployable Web Apps in Python
• marimo - a next-generation Python notebook
• Data-Oriented Django - Adam Johnson - YouTube - DjangoCon 2022
• Data Oriented Django Deux - Adam Johnson - YouTube - DjangoCon Europe 2024
• Episode #165: Leveraging the Features of Your Database With Postgres and Python
• pgMustard - review Postgres query plans quickly
• Django Chat
• Django for Data Science: Deploying Machine Learning Models with Django - William Vincent
• Episode #500 - Django Simple Deploy and other DevOps Things - Talk Python To Me Podcast
• Episode #234: Building New Structures for Learning Python
• Reference – Real Python
• Django for Web Development (Learning Path) – Real Python
• Getting Started With Django: Building a Portfolio App – Video Course
• Your First Steps With Django: Set Up a Django Project – Tutorial

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