From the course: Building a Personal Portfolio with Django
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Starting a new project in Django
From the course: Building a Personal Portfolio with Django
Starting a new project in Django
- [Instructor] Alright, let's go ahead and get started building this website with Django. Now in order to kick things off, we need to move into our terminal to start our Django project. So go ahead and open up your terminal. Let me give ourselves a little bit more space here to work with. And I'd like to save this project onto my desktop, and so I'm gonna do a little cd into my desktop here. Now that I'm here, as long as you have Django installed, you should be able to type out django-admin, and I might recommend hitting the Tab for auto-complete. That would really confirm that you've got Django installed correctly. And then we're gonna say startproject. Just all lowercase startproject, and then we need to give our project a name. Now this is our personal portfolio website. I think portfolio's a pretty descriptive name, so I'm just gonna say portfolio here. And go ahead and hit Enter. Now with this, you can see just by this one quick command, all of a sudden this new folder has…
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