Summary

Beginners often underestimate the importance of a good requirements-gathering process. At the same time, it is important not to get bogged down with the details, because programming is inherently an exploratory process. The most successful projects spend the right amount of time preparing and planning before development so that it yields the maximum benefits.

We discussed many aspects of designing an application, such as creating interactive mockups or piding it into reusable components called apps. We also discussed the steps to set up SuperBook, our example project.

In the next few chapters, we will look at each component of Django in detail and learn the design patterns and best practices around them.