I'm a Django user myself and I used this book a few years back, but the current version is quite out-of-date.

The official Django tutorial takes little time to work through and I highly recommend it as a taster: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/intro/tutorial01/

Thanks, I did not know the book was out of date. I also used it years back and have just used the regular documentation since then.