<p>All,</p>

<p>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 <a href="http://www.showmedo.com/videos/video?name=stoops010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this one</a> 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.</p>

<p>Can people point out some good straightforward resources/tutorials to get the thing up and running?  </p>

<p>I plan doing this on Windows environment.</p>

It doesn't take half an hour, nor should you think that development is mostly about writing code. There is always going to setup work and such involved. That being said, I understand your plight. You might have luck finding a project that interests you and already exists. Simply checking out their latest revision should let you run it, poke around locally, and if you make some actual progress with the code you can contribute it instead of going to waste in the name of just messing around.