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Re:Teach our kids to code by tuukkah on Monday September 12, 2011 @11:36AM (#2987661)
When you get to know Python, you don't need to "move into" Ruby or (shudder) PHP. It's much easier to learn a web programming framework in Python and how to deploy it, rather than to learn how your second programming language differs from Python.

The sad state of client-side programming is that you need to learn a lot about the messy world of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Come to think of it, CoffeeScript might be a good language to start with today?

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Re:Teach our kids to code by ErrantX on Monday September 12, 2011 @11:48AM (#2987717)
shrug

In my experience PHP or Ruby is generally a better/easier web programming experience (I tried Python but it never really clicked with the kids).

Python is a good general purpose language though.

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