Check out the Django Girls tutorial, which I've routinely run for 40-50 attendees in an all-day workshop. By the end of the day, you'll have an app that can be

Check out the Django Girls tutorial, which I've routinely run for 40-50 attendees in an all-day workshop. By the end of the day, you'll have an app that can be deployed to a PaaS like PythonAnywhere or Google App Engine: https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/ https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/ My recommendation for new programmers who want to "get shit done" is to learn a kitchen-sink framework. Rails or Django are my usual recommendations, because these have tons of examples of user accounts, role-based access control, caching, deployment, etc.