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Assignment 2: Model-View-Template (MVT) Implementation on Django

Platform-Based Programming (CSGE602022) — Organized by the Faculty of Computer Science Universitas Indonesia, Odd Semester 2023/2024

Assignment Description​

In this assignment, you have to implement the Model-View-Template concept, alongside other things that you have learned in class and tutorial. Please note that the project created in this assignment is different from the project used in the tutorial.

Application Theme​

The main theme for this semester's PBP assignment is inventory management application. This semester, you are free to choose the name and the subtheme for your application, while ensuring your application's model fulfills these attributes:

  • name as the name of the item, with type CharField.
  • amount as the amount/count of the item, with type IntegerField.
  • description as the description of the item, with type TextField.

Feel free to add other attributes to your model (such as price, power, category, etc.), as long as the three mandatory attributes (name, amount, description) are present.

Some app ideas for your management app are:

  • Store product stock management.
  • Character's inventory and/or item in a game.
  • Trading card collection management.
  • Library collection management.

Assignment Checklist​

The checklist for this assignment are:

  • Create a new Django project.
  • Create an app with the name main on that project.
  • Create a URL routing configuration to access the main app.
  • Create a model on the main app with name Item and these mandatory attributes:
    • name as the name of the item, with type CharField.
    • amount as the amount/count of the item, with type IntegerField.
    • description as the description of the item, with type TextField.
  • Create a function in views.py that returns an HTML template containing your application name, your name, and your class.
  • Create a routing in urls.py to map the function inviews.py to an URL.
  • Deploy your app to Adaptable so it can be accessed through the internet.
  • Create a README.md that contains a URL to access your deployed app and answers to these questions:
    • How do you implement the tasks in the checklist? Explain in a step-by-step manner (not just copy-paste from the tutorial).
    • Create a diagram explaining the flow of client requests to a Django web app and its response. Also in the diagram, explain the connections between urls.py, views.py, models.py, and the HTML file(s).
    • What is the purpose of a virtual environment? Can we create a Django web app without a virtual environment?
    • What is MVC, MVT, and MVVM? Explain the differences between the three.

Note that to do this assignment, you must create a new repository and do your work in the new repository.

Deadline​

The deadline for Assignment 2 is Wednesday, 13th September 2023, at 12:00 p.m.

Bonus​

You will gain bonus points for this assignment if you successfully implement and demonstrate basic testing that differs from the testing taught in the tutorial. Therefore, you will not gain bonus points if you only implement tests for URL and template checking.

Hint: Read this documentation or other sources to learn how to create tests in Django.