On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, John Bartley K7AAY [email protected] wrote: > > I have determined I must learn programming, and would prefer to do so in >> the 'back end', i.e., server environment. I have (some) funding from being >> laid off when my job was outsourced overseas (fir the second time). Your >> suggestions about tools and processes would be appreciated. >> > > John, > > To what end? That is, what sort of applications do you want to write? > > Without knowing the answers, I'll still suggest learning Python. It's > powerful, fairly easy, and there's lots of on-line help in addition to the > freely downloadable docs. > > https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python#introduction This will spoon feed you the Python, Django and Postgresql and have a public facing website in a few hours. The apps you write for heroku suffer a little vendor lock in, but 90% of what you learn will be portable and a huge step to employable. for free. Some great people work there. The wouldn't work there is it wasn't a legit company. > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Carl K _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
