Some basic questions from somebody learning Django/Python

Hi all,

   I have some (possibly dumb) questions about Django.  I've been through the great "Writing your first app" tutorial on the DjangoProject site, and now my plan is to explore in detail some existing apps from GitHub: get them installed, go through the code line by line, make some mods and see what happens, etc.  But actually getting one installed is a challenge.  Many are old and don't seem to work with newer Django, or they do not contain setup.py or any installation instructions.

   So my basic question is: how do I install an app if there is no setup.py?  I've googled around and tried many things (manage.py install, adding it to Installed Apps in settings.py, trying to modify the urls.py to point to the new app's urls.py file, running manage.py syncdb, etc)...but without much success.

   My more general question is: any suggestions on how to proceed learning Django?  I'm happy to read docs from the Project website, but I wanted to combine that with some doing, too.  Can someone suggest a good/instructive GitHub app to install?  I'd like to learn about Facebook integration, tracking user preferences, pulling information about books or movies, etc.

   Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-c

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