diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
index 85d8676b1..f7dc38587 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ To get started, let's create a new project to work with.
 
 Once that's done we can create an app that we'll use to create a simple Web API.
 
-    python manage.py startapp snippets
+    django-admin startapp snippets
 
 We'll need to add our new `snippets` app and the `rest_framework` app to `INSTALLED_APPS`. Let's edit the `tutorial/settings.py` file: