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diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md index 55a9f679..6a97f779 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md @@ -6,6 +6,18 @@ This tutorial will walk you through the building blocks that make up REST framew ## Getting started +Before we do anything else we'll create a new virtual environment, using [virtualenv]. This will make sure our package configuration is keep nicely isolated from any other projects we're working on. + + mkdir -p ~/.env + virtualenv --no-site-packages ~/.env/djangorestframework + source ~/.env/djangorestframework/env/bin/activate + +Now that we're inside a virtualenv environment, we can install our packages requirements. + + pip install django + pip install djangorestframework + +Now we're ready to get coding. To get started, let's create a new project to work with. django-admin.py startproject tutorial @@ -231,6 +243,7 @@ We're doing okay so far, we've got a serialization API that feels pretty similar Our API views don't do anything particularly special at the moment, beyond serve `json` responses, and there's some error handling edge cases we'd still like to clean up, but it's a functioning Web API. -We'll see how we can start to improve things in [part 2 of the tutorial][1]. +We'll see how we can start to improve things in [part 2 of the tutorial][tut-2]. -[1]: 2-requests-and-responses.md
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