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Chapter 12: We learned about the {XML,JSON}-RPC APIs Odoo exposes for its own web client app mainly but which can be taken advantage of from other 3rd party external clients, be it apps or scripts..etc
To illustrate that, we built a little Sticky Notes GUI desktop app that fetches our To-Do tasks from the server allowing us to modify and save them, or create new tasks using keyboard shortcuts.

Chapter 11: Essentials of extending website.
We started by implementing a simple HTTP route (could be used for custom APIs too), then bound it to a QWeb template we created as well and tried to dynamically load the templates depending on URL parameters.
Next, we integrated with the website module and built upon it a list of tasks, adding new task form and menu. Also the essential security and validation side of it.

Chapter 10: Done with the QWeb Reports! Fun, easy, fast, modular and customizable PDF reports!
Since we already did the main work, learning about QWeb templates in the previous chapter, it's only a matter of knowing what base templates to call and build upon.

Chapter 09: We learned about Kanban boards -a Japanese word originally- which was first introduced by Toyota to standardize the workflow of their products. Kanban views are an easy way to implement such boards in Odoo to design a multiple-stages workflow. It's mostly standard HTML.
We then talked about QWeb XML-based templating language, the DeFacto for building modular reusable UI components in Odoo.

Chapter 08: A jump start on testing Odoo modules, either using Python's unittest library; setting up the tests and running them, inspecting and debugging the code using pdb and its variants.
We also took a slight peek at the syntax of probably-to-be-deprecated YAML testing syntax.

Chapter 07: TL;DR, all the details you need to know about how the ORM API works and how to manipulate records and data.
We also did a demo about using the odoo.models.TransientModel to create a simple wizard form.

Next, is a very interesting chapter; diving into writing tests and debugging issues!

Chapter 06: Everything you need to know about views

Chapter 05: Created a new module to extend on top of the previous ones, and in the process we went in depth about different aspects used in models: learned about the 3 different model types, then the special model fields and model constraints and how to alter the default conventions, then the relationships between models with to-many relations, their inverse, hierarchic, references and computed fields.

From chapter 04 on, we're going to revisit development blocks we previously went fast about.
In this chapter we've learned all the essentials about data serialization and understood in detail the XML aspects learned previously suck as the important XML external IDs.
We knew data/demo files and learned different options to CRUD/import/export the data and set it up.

...3 inheritance mechanisms:
a. In-place extensions: It's when you inherit a model and add feature to it
b. Prototype inheritance: Extend a model by copying another schema to it. Down side: Data duplication
c. Delegation inheritance: It's like a virtual view that combines behind multiple models

I have also discovered another couple of issues in the book
A typo: page 58 line: 01
A bug in XPath expression: page 61,62