Django dynamic URLs and templates tutorial In Part 1, I got a plain “Hello, world” message showing up on my homepage, and honestly, that felt like a big enough win at the time. But real websites don’t just show static text — they show HTML pages, and they show different content depending on which specific […]

Django URLs and Views Explained There was a point in my Django journey where I could create a project, create an app, define a model, and register it in the admin — but if you’d asked me how a URL actually turns into a visible webpage, I would have just shrugged. I was following steps […]

Django project vs app explained For the first couple of weeks I spent learning Django, I genuinely thought “project” and “app” were just two words for the same thing. I’d create a project, then create something called an app, and in my head, they were basically interchangeable folders full of Python files. It wasn’t until […]

Django App Structure Explained: 7 Files You’ll Actually Use The first app I ever created in Django was called blog. I remember running python manage.py startapp blog, watching a new folder pop up, and thinking — okay, now what? I had just gone through the pain of understanding the project structure, and now here was […]

What Happens When You Create a Django Project? (Full Breakdown) What Happens When You Create a Django Project? I remember the exact moment. I’d just typed django-admin startproject myfirstproject, hit enter, and… nothing dramatic happened. No confetti, no “success” message. Just my terminal quietly returning to the next line. I opened the folder expecting something […]

How to Create Your First Django Project in 2026 (7 Easy Steps) how to create first Django project, I still remember the first time I opened my terminal and typed django-admin startproject. I had no idea what half the files meant, and honestly, I broke my project twice before I got a page to load. […]

Python Virtual Environment: 4 Simple Steps to Create venv for Django (2026) Welcome to video 3 of the Nima Academy Django course. Before installing Django itself, every professional Python developer sets up a Python virtual environment first. In this guide, you’ll learn exactly what venv is, why it matters, and how to create one in […]

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Install Python and VS Code: 5 Easy Steps for Django Beginners (2026) If you’re following the Nima Academy Django course, this is video 2 — and before we touch a single line of Django code, we need a working environment. In this guide, you’ll learn how to install Python and VS Code the right way, […]

Introduction to Django Introduction to Django I’m excited to share my very first video on Django — a beginner-friendly introduction recorded entirely in Sinhala, made especially for the Sri Lankan developer community. Why I Made This Video There aren’t many good Sinhala-language resources for learning web development, especially for frameworks like Django. Most tutorials online […]