No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it (Django)

Question

I have followed the Django Book up until chapter seven, and I am currently messing around with forms, GET, POST and all that goodness. At one point, the guide made me figure out

Answer 1

I've never used DJango myself but judging by the error, there is no server listening at port 8000 (or some firewall/server restriction is blocking port 8000 on localhost)