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Matt Holder has been a fan of the open source methodology for over two decades and uses Linux and other tools where possible.
L ast issue we began a project to catalogue magazine articles, which makes it a lot easier to search for interesting topics, rather than hunting through a pile of magazines. During the tutorial, we introduced Django, which is a Python web framework, and designed our first models, which are how the data is stored in the database, including relationships between different database tables.
Django uses an object-relational mapper (ORM) to interact with the underlying SQL database, allowing for data to be interacted with as Pythonic objects, and this was also introduced. We also introduced Model-View-Controller (MVC) concepts, which are used to provide clear separation between the storage of data, processing of this data and how it is displayed or interacted with by the user. Finally, we introduced the
