Hi Aseem, First of all great thought and all the best for the learning!
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Aseem Bansal <asmbans...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wanted to do a little project for learning Python. I thought a chat > system will be good as it isn't something that I have ever done. > > I wanted to know what will I need? I think that would require me these > 1 learn network/socket programming > Yes! sockets are the heart and soul of chat sys :-) > 2 find a free server to host my chat server > You can use many, but I would suggest heroku for your free apps. > 3 GUI development for clients > > There are many python libraries Tkinter, PyQt, PyGtk, wxPython through which you have GUI! > -I wanted to know whether these are all that I would need or are there > more things? > I think with above you are good to go! > -Will I need to learn a web framework like Django? > That would really depend upon the type of chat application you are relying upon. For a command line utility I think you can skip it, but if you wish to have good-looking web version then yes, give Django a shot! But yes do see other frameworks as well, just for finding out, learning and knowing more :) > -Will I need to learn something for database management like sql for > handling people's account names and password? > Yes, it will be good decision to use DB to store names and chat histories (with timestamp) and have your logs ready > > Is google appengine good for hosting the website or should I look up at > django hosting websites? > Its good too :) > > Any other advice for me(a novice programmer)? > Make mistakes and fail early! Python is awesome! But do try to learn the best practices. For eg, reverse a string string[::-1] etc. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Regards ~Vikash
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