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.
Click here to see a typical 6-day web boot camp schedule

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.

There are none scheduled at this time.



Sliding fee scale
Django for Djournalists + Web Programming (6 days):

Listed prices are for current IRE members. Nonmembers add
$60.

Newspapers:
Sunday circulation under 50,000

$500
Sunday circulation under 100,000
$750
Sunday circulation 100,000 and over
$1,000

Television:
50-200 market

$500
25-50 market
$750
Top 25 market
$1,000

Radio:
$500
Magazine and Newsletters:
$750
Online Media:
for rate
Universities:
$750
Freelance:
$500


Sliding fee scale for the Web Programming Boot Camp Only (3 days):

Listed prices are for current IRE members. Nonmembers add
$60.

Newspapers:
Sunday circulation under 50,000

$300
Sunday circulation under 100,000
$500
Sunday circulation 100,000 and over
$750

Television:
50-200 market

$300
25-50 market
$500
Top 25 market
$750

Radio:
$500
Magazine and Newsletters:
$300
Online Media:
for rate
Universities:
$300
Freelance:
$250
Students:
$250


Sliding fee scale for the Django for Djournalists Boot Camp Only (3 days):

Listed prices are for current IRE members. Nonmembers add
$60.

Newspapers:
Sunday circulation under 50,000

$300
Sunday circulation under 100,000
$500
Sunday circulation 100,000 and over
$750

Television:
50-200 market

$300
25-50 market
$500
Top 25 market
$750

Radio:
$500
Magazine and Newsletters:
$300
Online Media:
for rate
Universities:
$300
Freelance:
$250
Students:
$250