Your First Scoop of Django

Turn the Python you know into your first Django website.

Build an ice cream catalog with accounts, search, and a tasting list, then learn to test it and put it online.

By Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld, Daniel Roy Greenfeld

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What you’ll build

Build Department of Scoops one feature at a time. Follow a request from the browser through Python and the database to the page. Practice with forms, templates, accounts, tests, and HTMX, then build a feature of your own. The later chapters cover deployment, backups, and recovery.

Who it’s for

For readers who have written small Python programs and are new to web development. The project uses uv to manage its Python environment.

Your First Scoop of Django is the newest edition of Django Crash Course, also previously published as A Wedge of Django. Published by Two Scoops Press.

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Django Crash Course

A Wedge of Django · 2021

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Edition details

Learn Django the right way from the start. A hands-on tutorial by Daniel and Audrey Roy Greenfeld, authors of Two Scoops of Django.

Also published as A Wedge of Django, this is our guided walkthrough tutorial where we build a real production-quality Django 3.2 web application from the ground up.

Authors: Daniel Roy Greenfeld and Audrey Roy Greenfeld.

Django Crash Course was first published in 2020. The A Wedge of Django edition shown here is dated June 30, 2021. The original cover is preserved below.

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Django Crash Course

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Learn Django the right way from the start. A hands-on tutorial by Daniel and Audrey Roy Greenfeld, authors of Two Scoops of Django.

Authors: Daniel Roy Greenfeld and Audrey Roy Greenfeld.

The original 2020 presentation of the book later published as A Wedge of Django.