Wow, Larry, thanks. If YOU think it's "not easy" then she will be as lost as a polar bear in Guatemala... I told her that I thought that Ruby was more of a "web programming language" than a website design tool, but apparently their marketing materials for this course states something like "you'll be able to design comlicated websites with no prior programming or design experience".
Karen In a message dated 1/2/2012 9:01:17 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > It is not easy. Web programming is never easy but Ruby on Rails is, in > particular, not easy. What it is is fast, if you understand the underlying > concepts -- things like closures, function pointers, and list > comprehensions. If you can handle this stuff, plus Ruby's "way of doing > things". I > tied Ruby once and didn't like it. I prefer Python, an equally powerful but > more "explicit" language, and its various web frameworks (I recently spent > some time with CherryPy, which I found excellent). > > Also, Ruby on Rails is not a design package of any type but rather a > server-side programming language for dynamic web sites. It is not a complete > solution for web development (you still need to know HTML, CSS, some HTTP, a > database language, and probably a separate HTML templating language). > > Unless someone really wants to invest a lot of time and effort into > learning web development, using a "generator" type product (like R: Web > Suite) > makes sense. For the design side of the equation, she could try the program > Artisteer, which can produce some very nice designs using a GUI. > -- > Larry > > > > > >
