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My issue with your advice is that I then have to trouble myself with learning Apache or some similar server stack. Last time I worked with Apache, over 10 years
by virmundi 12y ago
My issue with your advice is that I then have to trouble myself with learning Apache or some similar server stack. Last time I worked with Apache, over 10 years ago, it was annoying, to say the least.
What we need is a simple solution. I recommend bottle or flask. Documentation is available. Easy to start. A good community to work with for learners.
Will it scale? To Hell with that. No beginner should have to worry about that. They need to worry about first principles. Then work their way up.
- conductr 12y agovirtualenv and deployment are why I don't recommend python for step 0 beginners Most people I've talked to at this level, they are so far away from being "technical" that HTML/CSS is already a huge (unavoidable) hurdle and the simplest thing I can imagine is PHP + FTP. If they get on an FTP client that mimics the GUI of a folder system, people get it real quick - they are copying this local file to another folder on the server. To me, the quicker you can get them to deploy something the better. because the first steps are to understand how information is sent to your app, understand that it's your apps job to make sense of that information and return a response. I also tell them to get a cheap standard shared host, so most of the apache is transparent to them anyways. When they get to the point of needing to customize apache, that's an incremental step from where they have already gotten