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Re:Ask HN: How to best help a youngster who's tinkering to p... by anexprogrammer on Thursday October 27, 2016 @10:30PM (#12812557)
He was asking me the other day for ideas to progress from static pages and submit to sexy realtime web apps. In other words nearer to what he sees and uses every day, rather than simple sites and submits.

I'm somewhat thinking out loud as I'm just not sure. Maybe a decent front end to sit with PHP is the best answer, but I felt something else like Rails might be more productive and helpful to learning for him than sticking with php.

Last thing I want to do is put him off though!

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Re:Ask HN: How to best help a youngster who's tinkering to p... by angersock on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:58PM (#12819491)
PHP or Node or anything that can AJAX without needing a framework--just something that's easy to hack in. Let the work motivate why he might want to move to something more complicated, and then point out frameworks.
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