Monthly Meetup — Django Tutorial

This month's meeting will be held next Wednesday (May 23rd) at 7pm at Google's office at Bakery Square. Jesse Legg will be presenting a tutorial on Django, so everyone is encouraged to bring a laptop with Python installed. Jesse will post to the group shortly with any background or software requirements needed.

Please be on time to the meeting if at all possible. We won't be turning latecomers away, but someone will have to leave the meeting to let you in, which is a bummer for everyone.

Here are some directions:

Bakery Square
6425 Penn Ave., Suite 700
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Directions

Please park in the garage rather than the parking lot. Parking is free for the first 3 hours or after 5:00pm.

Enter the office on the ground floor at the entrance between the parking garage and the office building (not the Penn Ave entrance which is employees only.). The doors are locked at 7:00pm, so after 7:00pm folks will have to call to have some come open the doors. We'll post the numbers on a sign on the door.

Preparations/Instructions

For our Meetup on Wednesday, we will be doing a tutorial on the Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/) web framework. We will work thru it collaboratively so bring a laptop or other device capable of running Python, or follow along via projector. No prior knowledge of Django required!

In terms of software, here is what you'll want to have installed beforehand:

Python (obviously) — version 2.5 or higher, but NOT 3.0 Django — installed in your system path or a virtualenv; version at least 1.2, but go for 1.4 if possible An IDE or text editor, something to write Python with We will use SQLite, which is included in Python 2.5+, so no need to worry about setting up a database.

To install the latest Django release (1.4), simply:

$ pip install Django

To check if Django is installed, what version you have, and where it is in your pythonpath, try:

>>> import django
>>> django.get_version()
'1.4'
>>> django.file '/Users/jesse/.virtualenvs/tutpgh/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/init.pyc'