18GETTING STARTED WITH DJANGO
Behind the scenes, today’s websites are actually rich applications that act like fully developed desktop applications. Python has a great set of tools for building web applications. In this chapter you’ll learn how to use Django (http://djangoproject.com/) to build a project called Learning Log—an online journal system that lets you keep track of information you’ve learned about particular topics.
We’ll write a specification for this project, and then we’ll define models for the data the app will work with. We’ll use Django’s admin system to enter some initial data and then learn to write views and templates so Django ...
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