Python Django Tutorial 2018 for Beginners Part 1

A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Django

Welcome to the complete beginner’s guide to Django! In this series, I assume you don’t have any prior knowledge in the Python programming or Django web framework.  So lets’ get started.

Install Anaconda Python Distribution

By default, Ubuntu 16.04 comes with Python 2.7 but we’ll install the latest version of Anaconda Python distribution.  To download the latest version for your Mac or Windows environment visit the following link https://www.anaconda.com/download/

Those who are in Ubuntu, type the following command in the terminal.

Once it’s done downloading the distribution use the following command the to install.

Make sure to agree to the terms by typing yes, during the installation process. Once the installation is finished, go ahead and close the terminal.

Creating the virtual environment in Anaconda for our Django project

Good job so far! Now let’s create our new virtual environment. So go ahead and open a new terminal and following along with me.

Let’s list all our current virtual environments using the following command

You should see by default you’ll have the base as your primary. let’s not touch this environment. Let’s go ahead and create a new environment for our Django project.

In the above command, I decided to create a virtual environment named bestofpython and I decided to use python 3.5.

now we need to activate our environment. To do that use the following command.

Wonderful, now let’s install Django!

Good job! You have successfully installed the Django web-framework, now let’s create our first app.