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Installing Python and Django, and Introducing the Movies Store Application

Welcome to Django 5 for the Impatient! This book focuses on the key tasks and concepts to help you learn and build Django applications quickly. It is designed for those of you who don’t need all the details about Django, except for those that you really need to know. By the end of this book, you will be confident in creating your own Django projects.

So, what’s Django? Django is a free, open-source web framework for building modern Python web applications. Django helps you quickly build web apps by abstracting away many of the repetitive challenges involved in building a website, such as connecting to a database, handling security, enabling user authentication, creating ...

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