Hi,
The error message by itself doesn't give us a lot to work with - it's not an error I'd normally expect to see while doing the tutorial.
My first guess would be that there is something corrupted in your Django install - this might happen if you've got multiple versions of Django installed, or if you've installed one version over the top of another.
Another possibility is that there is something wrong with the 1.8.3 release - it *should* be a stable release, and I wouldn't expect to see a bug like the one you describe, but it's only been out for a day or two, and stranger things have happened in the past.
So - my first suggestions:
* Completely uninstall Django, and confirm that it's uninstalled. Or, if you're using a virtualenv, create an entirely new one. Then re-install Django.
* If that doesn't work, try installing Django 1.8.2 (pip install django==1.8.2) to see if that makes a difference.
If neither of those two work, we're going to need to see some more context of that error message - the full error traceback, for example.
Yours,
Russ Magee %-0