overload with web development

by: legacy, 9 years ago


When it comes to web development, there are like 500 modules! Okay not 500 but a lot. Not just for Python, then there's other languages. With python, there's flask, django, web2py, pyramid, then you have to bring in html/css, then you need web servers, and javascript and sql (where you have choices of sqlite, mysql, sqalchemy). How do people learn all this at once? It seems impossible from here.



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Trust me, what you feel is normal. There sure is a lot to digest, especially initially. Start incrementally and in chunks. The first start can be Flask or Django with text-only returns.

Once you start to get familiar with Flask or Django, move on to learning more about html. HTML is quick and painless for the most part. Get familiar with bootstrap in this time. From here, you can make most websites. For the few times you need javascript, chances are, itll be a short script that you can simply copy and paste that someone else has written.

On to SQL, this can be a challenge, and mostly learned on the side. In the end, you really just need to learn select, insert, update, delete, doing very simple queries. Like HTML, the basics of SQL can be digested in a day.

Most importantly though, just take it one step at a time. You can't force yourself to learn faster. Something you will just slowly learn along the way as well will be server management/administration. This is also an ongoing thing, much like learning python. Don't expect to master any of these skills quickly.

Best wishes, and you can always come back to ask for help along the way!

-Harrison 9 years ago

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