Web Programming and Django for Djournalists

Learn how to take important databases—from local crime stats to school test scores—and turn them into powerful, useful tools for your Web site audience. You know it’s the next step for your CAR skills. Now learn how to build your Web tool the way you want it in these hands-on sequential classes. This kind of training would cost much more anywhere else!

Dive into a Web platform with Django, a powerful tool for getting your data on the Web and broadening your site’s audience. Some familiarity with Web programming is recommended. (If you are attending Web Programming for Journalists prior to Django for Djournalists, less extensive experience is okay.) In this advanced programming course you will:

  • Go from the basics of Web development to a fully-functioning data-driven application in Django, the web framework that drives award-winning projects like EveryBlock, PolitiFact, and The Washington Post’s congressional votes databases.
  • Learn how to create and use an interface in Django.
  • NOT leave empty-handed, because you’ll be building your own application to take back to your newsroom with you.
  • The registration fee includes a copy of The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right," by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss.

Boot camp prerequisites:

  • Very comfortable/fluent in SQL
  • Some experience with a programming language like Python, PHP, Ruby or Perl is preferred.

Registration:

Download a registration form by clicking on a scheduled event. Boot camps are held at IRE and NICAR headquarters in Columbia, Mo., unless otherwise stated.

May 17-22, 2009–Django and Web Programming (Django May 17-19, Web May 20-22):



Sliding fee scale
Django for Djournalists (3 days):

Listed prices are for current IRE members. Nonmembers add $60 ($25 for students).

Newspapers:
Sunday circulation under 50,000

$350
Sunday circulation under 100,000
$550
Sunday circulation 100,000 and over
$800

Television:
50-200 market

$350
25-50 market
$550
Top 25 market
$800

Radio:
$550
Magazine and Newsletters:
$350
Online Media:
for rate
Universities:
$350
Freelance:
$300
Students:
$300

Upcoming Boot Camps

Oct. 6-10, 2008: Computer-Assisted Reporting Boot Camp
Dec. 8-12, 2008: FIU Computer-Assisted Reporting Boot Camp
January 4-9, 2009: Computer-Assisted Reporting Boot Camp
January 9-11, 2009: Mapping Data for News Stories Boot Camp
March 22-27, 2009: Computer-Assisted Reporting Boot Camp
May 17-22, 2009: Django and Web Programming (Django May 17-19, Web May 20-22)
August 9-14, 2009: Computer-Assisted Reporting Boot Camp

See all IRE and NICAR training

General Information

Travel & lodging in Columbia, Mo.
Financial assistance
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