LOL. Thanks! PHP was definitely not very easy to pick up and I'm still having some issues. Last night I watched some tutorials on Django and plan on reading all of the links on the docs page of Django. I will also look at your recommendation. I think that will give me a good understanding. Hopefully Django isn't a copy/paste kinda "put your website together" like WordPress because my objective is to actually learn Python. On Dec 25, 2015 3:59 AM, "Chris Warrick" <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Forwarding your message to the mailing list — please use the Reply > All (or Reply to List) button in the future] > > On 25 December 2015 at 05:02, Aaron Christensen > <aaron.christen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Thank you for your response and information. I enjoy doing Python on my > > free time so when I get closer to some kind of web application, then I > can > > provide more information. > > > > Thanks for pointing me in the right direction so far. I will replace any > > shelve usage with the database. I also started looking at WSGI servers > and > > just found a great deal of information on fullstackpython.com. > > Full Stack Python is a good resource, which teaches many things > considered best practices in the Python web world (I personally > recommend uWSGI instead of Gunicorn, but that’s mainly just my > preference) > > > I have some experience in PHP (which is why I mentioned it). I am > > unfamiliar with Django, Flask, or Pyramid. I am looking into Django, > but am > > a little hesitant because of all the time I spent learning PHP. > > I’m sorry, but you wasted your time. PHP is an awful language with > multiple problems and bad design decisions. Here’s some laughing > stock: > > http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ > http://reddit.com/r/lolphp > http://phpsadness.com/ > > On the other hand, Python web frameworks are really fun and easy to > learn, even though their general design is a bit different from PHP’s: > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/intro/tutorial01/ > http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/ > > -- > Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> > PGP: 5EAAEA16 > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
