Django Calculator

This is one of those apps that every ‘Beginner Projects for Django’ blogs suggest, as it helps in understanding how models, views, forms and html pages work together.

I ran into a lot of errors while making it, and it really did help me understand how these core basics all work together. It also taught me how to Google more efficiently - there was terminology that I hadn’t encountered before, and I had to figure out what exactly I wanted.

Aim:

To create a basic calculator app which given an input of 1 or 2 numbers, outputs the specified operation, and also displays the previous calculations

Progress:

• The calculator performs the operations coded for successfully
• It displays the results on a separate page, which also shows the last 5 successful operations.
• Validation: It checks for valid numbers, and handles the errors accordingly. (An example of this would be when 2 numbers are provided for the Factorial option - An appropriate message should be shown)
• Successfully deployed on Pythonanywhere

Future Plans:

• Extend for multiple operations
• Provide an option for the number of previous results to be displayed.
• Provide better styling

Technology Used:

• Django Framework
• Python

Deployment:

The app has been successfully deployed here.

Find the repository here: