Resource Paths

After installing Python 2.7 (I hear that 3.x is not yet widely adopted, like the holdouts still running Windows XP) and Django, I loaded up what looks like the "official" tutorial and followed closely. Right away you get started creating a directory structure for a main project with room for applications (modular sub-components). Within the program files (aka modules or namespaces) there would be what looked like references to some kinds of resources "out there" in the system. For example:

Vi and MySQL, Overkill

I got some good advice to get started with Python and Django to learn about web development, and to start with the tutorial. The benefit there is to learn a programming (scripting) language for coding and to learn a framework for building database-driven websites. I thought it would be proper to do this in a GNU/Linux environment, though it has been a few years since I had more than a casual use for it. Getting the necessary infrastructure in place where I could install Django took some review of the basics, like how to access MySQL and how to use vi.