Hi all, I am sure this question has been beaten into the ground but hopefully I can get some specific insight so I don't waste time in the future. Thanks in advance.
The question: I have a year to learn a new programming language for web application development. I will be learning concurrently with going to school so I have about 10 hrs a week give or take. So the question is this should I learn Ruby on Rails or Python/Django??? Background Info about why: I am a student studying Cognitive Science and want to work as either a UX designer or a Full Stack Engineer, I am leaning towards Full Stack Engineering and designing more for the front end in my after hours. I don't have a serious girlfriend (lol) and my life is pretty simple so I know this is what I want to do. I am committed. I know PHP fairly well and can use Wordpress and Joomla for whatever. I am familiar with MVC through use of a popular PHP framework called Codeigniter. Oh yeah, I used C++ pretty heavily about 10 years ago building Windows Applications...and loved it. What I will be using it for: After I graduate in a year and after learning the language I decide on I plan to develop a full blown web application. I don't know if this is too ambitious but all I'm willing to say now is it is like Pintrest but not a clone. I have fully developed the concept for a long time now and will have the features down pat by then. My goal is to invest my time on a prototype and release it, then hopefully get with a team or even investors if it works and develop it more. If it doesn't work out then Plan B is to use my skill-set in a full time position with a company in a tech hub somewhere in the US. Plan B might turn into Plan A in a year depending on my money situation. So there are three aspects to this question: Should I learn Django/Python or Ruby on Rails? is Plan A(the web app) feasible with just me and Django/Python? How does Python fair in the work market? I know all this may seem like a lot to ask but this is really just a test of this forums activity. I have been pretty avid on staying with PHP or maybe going back to C++ because this HTML/CSS situation I usually work with these days tends to get on my nerves. Last thing to add for this thread (I swear) is: one thing that really irks me about web development is the lack of real debugging tools that work flawlessly. Maybe it is just I haven't learned them yet but I know in PHP you are stuck with using Xdebug through your browser (although I just found a new debugger that only works in recent versions of PHP) so if anyone could just give a 1+ to integrated debugging with Python Django that would be great. Thanks again if you read this far. Feel free to contact me if you have a similar web application in the works, I have no doubt there probably is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/4c01a2c3-50f1-4123-b0b2-4197222d6595%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
