Hello World!

Create a new web project called sigcse. We will use this project for all other examples. Type at the command line:

django-admin.py startproject sigcse

This creates a new folder named sigcse. Change to that directory with the following command line:

cd sigcse

This folder should contain the following four files:

File Name	Description
`__init__.py`	Used to indicate that the current folder is a Python package.
`manage.py`	Utility script that allows you to interact with the current Django project in various ways.
`settings.py`	Configuration file for this Django project.
`urls.py`	The URL mappings for this Django project.

Run the web server to see if it works correctly. Type at the command line:
```
python manage.py runserver
```
Now, visit http://localhost:8000/ with your Web browser. You should see a welcome page.
Create a templates folder. At the command line type:
```
mkdir templates
```

Tell Django the location of your templates folder. Edit the sigcse/settings.py file. Add a line similar to the one being highlighted:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
    '/home/aortiz/sigcse/templates',
)

Create a base.html file and place it in the templates folder. The contents of this file should be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

  <head>

    <style type="text/css">

      body {
        background: #FFFFFF;
        color: #000080;
        font-family: sans-serif;
        font-size: medium;
        margin: 20px;
      }
      
      hr {
        border: 0;
        color: #B0C4DE;
        background-color: #B0C4DE;
        height: 1px;
      }

      table {
        border-collapse: collapse;
        border: 1px solid #000000;
        padding: 0px;
        margin-bottom: 10px;
        color: #000000; 
        background: #E6E6FA;
      }

      td {
        border: 1px solid #000000;
        padding: 10px;
        text-align: center;
      }

      th {
        border: 1px solid #000000;
        padding: 10px;
        color: #008080;
        background: #B0E0E6;
      }
      
      .footer {
        font-size: 70%;
        color: #B0C4DE;
        text-align: center;
      }

    </style>

    <title>
      {% block title %}No Title{% endblock %}
    </title>

  </head>

  <body>    
    {% block main %}

    {% endblock %}
    <hr/>    
    <p class="footer">
      Workshop: <em>Web Development with Python and Django</em>
      <br/>
      <strong>SIGCSE 2009</strong>        
    </p>
  </body>

</html>

Create a new application called hello. At the command line, type:
```
python manage.py startapp hello
```

Create a hello.html file in the templates folder. The contents of this file should be:

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block title %}Hello{% endblock %}

{% block main %}
  <h1>Hello {{ name }}!</h1>
  <p>
    Yes! This is my first Django Web page.
  </p>
{% endblock %}

Create a view that sends information to the template. Edit the file sigcse/hello/views.py so that it has the following content:
```
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response

def say(request, name):
    return render_to_response('hello.html', {'name': name})    
```

Link the view function with a URL pattern. Edit the sigcse/urls.py file by adding the highlighted line:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Example:
    # (r'^sigcse/', include('sigcse.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below and add 'django.contrib.admindocs' 
    # to INSTALLED_APPS to enable admin documentation:
    # (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    # (r'^admin/(.*)', admin.site.root),
    (r'^hello/(\w+)/$', 'sigcse.hello.views.say'),
)

Using your web browser, visit the following URL: http://localhost:8000/hello/World/