Creating a Django Web App

Setup - Visual Studio

Create a new project in Visual Studio, look in the python section and Django:

On your own machines, this will install all of the appropriate packages into your python installation if you select 'Install into Python'. However in College will will need to do a bit more, and instead choose 'install into virtual environment':

In College we will need see this window:

You can untick the install packages option, because this will fail on college computers.

Now, find the site packages folder within your project folder:

Extract this zip file: Django 1.11.20

You should now have:

Next, you will need to create a super user account. This must be done before running the app for the first time:

Now click start in Visual Studio, you should see something like this:

It should automatically open a browser, it should already point to your web app: