I will be away with our high school programming team at the High School Programming Contest on Friday, so we need to plan today for both today and Friday.

Complete each of the activities described below. Take notes on all these activites in a markdown file named URLsDispatch.md (which you should link to from your README.md).

Be ready for a short quiz on what you have learned at the beginning of class on Tuesday.

Let's begin by adding a homepage to your django_projects site. We will be using the Option 2: Project Level approach as discussed in Django Best Practices: Template Structure.

Here's what you need to do:

1. Create a new templates directory in the outer of your two mysite directories (the one with manage.py and your database file in it).
2. Modify the TEMPLATES list in settings.py as discussed in Option 2.
3. In mysite/urls.py add this import:

   from django.views.generic import TemplateView
   

   and this urlpattern:

   path('', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="home.html")),
   

4. Create a homepage in a file named home.html in the new templates directory you made in the first step.
5. Include an unordered list in this homepage with a heading, My Django Apps, and a link to "polls/" which should bring the viewer to your polls app when clicked.

Having successfully created a home page for your django_projects, let's take a look into the files of gctaa_dj4e_samples to see how and where it does the same thing we just did.

By the time you come to class next Tuesday, be ready to answer the following questions:

1. Which subdirectory of gctaa_dj4e_samples is the main project directory (the equivalent of the inner mysite subdirectory in our django_projects)? How can you tell?
2. When you run the server in gctaa_dj4e_samples, which template file is being used? How do you know?
3. Is the setup for the gctaa_dj4e_samples main page the same as the one we just used above? Why or why not?