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Python

Posted by Daniel Jeffery
Daniel Jeffery
Courses Plus Student 26,985 Points

course versus course_id

For the example of steps and courses, we have a "course" field in our Step model, which is saved in the database as "course_id", which is a standard way to show that a field is a foreign key to another table.

Why is the database column name used instead of the attribute name in the model?

i.e why is it "course_id" instead of "course", or would course also work in this case?

Thanks