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All the resources we use are open source and maintained by the community: free tutorials, guides and manuals for learners, coaches and organizers

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Django Girls Tutorial

The tutorial we use at every workshop. It walks complete beginners through building their first web application, a blog, from scratch.

Beginner-friendly, no prior experience needed
Covers the command line, Python, Django, HTML and CSS
Project-based: you finish with a working blog online
Free to follow on your own, at your own pace
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Django Girls Tutorial

Manuals for Organizers & Coaches

Two handbooks for the people who make workshops happen: one for planning the event, one for guiding participants on the day.

Organizer's Manual: how to plan and run a workshop like Django Girls, or any other event
Coaching Guide: how to coach beginners effectively during a workshop
Useful for volunteers, coaches and organizers
Helps create a smooth and inclusive learning environment
Organizer's Manual and Coaching Guide

Tutorial Extensions

Extra tasks and exercises that pick up where the one-day tutorial ends, so you can keep improving the blog you built.

Hands-on follow-up exercises
For learners who want to go beyond the basics
Builds directly on the Django Girls Tutorial project
Can be done individually or in groups
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Tutorial Extensions

Realtime Video Chat App Workshop

The tutorial written for the Django Girls workshop at PyCon Tanzania 2024, where participants built a realtime video chat application.

Material from one of our own past events
Covers command line, Python, Django, HTML and CSS basics
Beginner-friendly, with a real project to build
PDF you can save for offline reading
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PyCon Tanzania 2024 Django Girls workshop