some django beginner-intermediate-advanced projects from books / tutorials modified to learn quickly and try features out

made use of {in no particular order}

• Brad Traversy

• simpleisbetterthancomplex.com

• Django 3 by example (3rd ed)

• Django 3 web dev. cookbook (4th ed)

• Building Django 2 web applications

• django for beginners (WS Vincent)

• django for professionals (WSV)

• django for apis (WSV)

• django crash course from the guys who made 2 scoops of django

• various udemy / codemy / packt video / skillshare tutorials

• Practical django 2 and channels /pro-complex/ (F. Marani) this uses channels that is event driven asgi - django 3 has "stolen" it

• Testdriven.io tutorial(s)

• ...and one of the bests: TalkPython.fm training materials

to install

have python 3.7+ available and create a virtual environment for pip packages first (py3)
python3 -m venv .venv

optionally install watchman for quicker dev. srv. reload (pywatchman is in dev reqs)
brew install watchman

activate it
source ./.venv/bin/activate

install packages
pip install -r requirements[_dev].txt

try it
cd into folder and use python ./manage.py migrate/collectstatic/*runserver*