joshua.pea...@gmail.com wrote: > I am a recovering C# web developer who has recently picked up Django > and I'm loving it. > > I would eventually like to get a job as a Django/Python developer. It > seems that many Python jobs require that you also be a C++ developer.
I've seen the C++/Python combination in job descriptions, too. ISTM that these are about systems that are written in C++ and then scripted in Python. For speeding up Python applications. > While I want to remain primarily a web developer, I don't want be > stuck doing CRUD applications, so I would like to learn C++ for Python > development. In the web development field, the probability for doing custom C/C++ development is very low in my experience. > I have taken two basic programming courses in straight up > C++, no STL, Boost or anything like that, but I do have a very basic > knowledge of the language. Learning progamming languages never hurts, but I'd recommend you learn C instead, perhaps by using the Python C API (writing small extension modules). There are not so many Python extensions written in C++, most are written in C. C++ usually doesn't buy you enough to warrant using it instead of C here. So my advice: go with C. Or learn something more relevant to web programming. Like improve your JavaScript skills ;-) > [...] -- Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
