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Re:Ask HN: How many of you non-tech people wanted to learn t... by code_star on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:33PM (#11803335)
The place to start really depends on what you are interested in. If you already know you want to do a bunch of web programming just start out with javascript.

If you think you might go on to do lots of types of programming then learning python is a great place to start

Check out reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer if you want interesting things to work on them. A lot of those tasks are not so simple that they can be done in a couple of hours, but not so long as to be crazy hard.

I was a big fan or this one

https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/3fva66/201...

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you non-tech people wanted to learn t... by touchofevil on Monday May 30, 2016 @06:43PM (#11803640)
Thanks for the info. I considered focusing on Javascript and node exclusively, but I'm really only looking to build CRUD web apps quickly, and Rails or Django seemed more beginner friendly for those purposes than node. Of course, I'd still need Javascript for the front-end of these CRUD web apps. I'm still kind of on the fence though between RoR vs Python/Django. I'd like to be be able to create MVPs quickly, so RoR is tempting even though I'd prefer to learn Python rather than Ruby.
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