Please don't recommend the Django book to people. It's very out of date (in case you didn't read the warning on the front). Use the official Django tutorial [1] instead.

[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/intro/tutorial01/

There are plans to update the book, but they need help with that:

https://readthedocs.org/projects/django-book-new/

https://github.com/jacobian/djangobook.com