Disclaimer: I am a noob, so take this for what it is worth. After/during school I played in Ruby, Perl, PHP and most recently Python. I love Python and find i

Disclaimer: I am a noob, so take this for what it is worth. After/during school I played in Ruby, Perl, PHP and most recently Python. I love Python and find it making sense where the other languages and frameworks seemed unnecessarily confounded at times. After a week in Python, I felt like I absorbed more than a month in any of the others (although PHP is 'easy' to pick up, its peculiarities are a bit cumbersome to work around). After forming a fondness for Python, I decided to start on Django and love it. I am currently working on a couple of small apps based on the framework and feel the rate of progress concerning both my learning and development to be extremely rapid - far more so than was the case in reading through the various rails tutorials (just for contrast - no flaming please. I admit my complete and total ignorance in advance to any fanboys currently mumbling "idiot" as they read this). I personally recommend checking out http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Install_Django_and_Build_Your_First_App http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Install_Django_and_Build_Y... 1st to wet your appetite - its quick and allows you to see the power of the framework in no time flat. When you finish there, head to http://www.djangobook.com http://www.djangobook.com and start working through - I am and am having a blast doing it. I know it is a bit cliché, but Python + Django has been a pleasure to program in. Although I may not be able to etch out a living doing it right now, I think this is where I will be spending my recreation time for a while.