Django Workshop

Django Workshop is a free tutorial for the Python open source web framework Django 1.5 which has been written by Markus Zapke-Gründemann and others. It is suitable for people who have basic programming skills. You can either use the tutorial for self-study or book a training if you are stuck or need information not provided in this tutorial.

Free means the tutorial is distributed under a Creative Commons License and everyone is invited to contribute. If you have any suggestions for improvements, or find any errors, please let us know in the Issue Tracker.

If you have basic knowledge in the following areas it will be a lot easier for you to learn Django:

• Object-oriented programming (using Python)
• HTTP Request/Response model
• HTML and CSS
• SQL and relational databases

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Preparation
• Install Django
• A new Django Project
• The first Django App
• The Admin application
• Database and Development Web Server
• The first Views
• Authors
• License

Indices and tables

• Index
• Search Page
• To-do Items