Your First Scoop of Django

By Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld, Daniel Roy Greenfeld

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.

Your First Scoop of Django walks you through Department of Scoops, a website you build one feature at a time. Follow a request from your browser through Python and the database to the page, so you can explain how your application works and decide where your next change belongs.

You will practice with forms, templates, accounts, and tests, add interactive features with HTMX, and build a feature of your own. The later chapters guide you through deployment, backups, and recovery.

For readers who have written small Python programs and are new to web development. This edition uses Python 3.14, Django 6.1, and uv.

The 2026 beta edition by Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld and Daniel Roy Greenfeld, published by Two Scoops Press. 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