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Re:Learning to Code: Lessons from building a simple Rails ap... by tangue on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @03:39PM (#5173085)
I second that. To deploy a website you'll have to learn Rspec, Capybara, gem, bundler... all Rails idiosyncrasies. In this respect, I found Udacity CS253 far more useful than Treehouse. It's Python based and the course uses a light framework - webapp2 (plus, you don't get lame jokes and it's free.)
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Re:Learning to Code: Lessons from building a simple Rails ap... by DeepDuh on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @06:24PM (#5173999)
How about Flask+Flask+sqlite as an intro to (web)programming? It shows you much more of what's going on in the database backend. Plus, Flask is so small you can still look at it's program code in an afternoon and understand what it's doing.
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