All,
I'd like to check Django out and maybe hack together some web pages to see how it feels - but after having a look at a few tutorials like this one I am starting to wonder if there is any way of getting it up and runinng without typying cmd line stuff for 1/2 hour.
Can people point out some good straightforward resources/tutorials to get the thing up and running?
I plan doing this on Windows environment.
As someone who just started playing around with Django as well, I found the official documentation very helpful. Just walk through the "First steps" tutorials at:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/
It will teach you the gist of Django it in a very short time. This is definitely one of the best official documentation of a framework I've seen so far.
In order to test it out under Windows, just installing the latest release should be enough as described here (given that Python itself is already installed, of course).
The second tutorial I looked at, was "The Django Book". While this is also written very well, it's a little bit outdated and doesn't cover the new style admin yet. Just beware of the admin pages examples if you would like to go through this tutorial as well.