Academic experience in rapid development of web information systems with Python and Django

This work presents the academic experience, both for teachers and students enrolled in a last year course, in developing web information systems by using the Django framework of the Python programming language. Django facilitates developing web applications by using the Model-Template-View (MTV) development pattern. Due to the syntactic and practical simplicity of Python and Django, students enrolled in the management and information science degree are able to develop prototypes of information systems. The students’ experiences allow highlighting the relevance of the initial phases of software development cycle, requirements, and design. The projects presented here are prototype web systems with operations to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) records from a database. It is concluded that Python is an adequate programing language because of its ease and rapid mastering.