Django for Everybody

Has anyone completed the Django for everybody course?

I just started the DJ4E course and did the first assignment —> which is the tutorial from the Django website but run on python anywhere.

I stumbled through it and had a hard time following the instructions intuitively, and I was able to complete it but I feel like I did a lot of work without knowing much of what’s actually going on. It was a lot of copy and paste.

Is that normal? Was this exercise more to get a high level overview of how the framework is structured or should I be going through it a lot slower to actually learn everything?

Thanks!

Edit: clarification —> does the course material break down the Django concepts further in the remaining lectures? Or do I really need to slow down on this first assignment to grasp the concepts? It seems like I was just thrown into it a bit too soon.