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Why arent there any courses teaching web development in Python?

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Re: Why arent there any courses teaching web development in Python?

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It seems you are only talking about python in the browser. I'd guess anyone wanting to use python in the browser already knows python and already uses javascript in the browser and wants to get a way to do browser stuff with the language they like. I don't think a beginner that doesn't know either language would care to go through the hoops to get python working on the browser.

Re: Why arent there any courses teaching web development in Python?

#12

It seems you are only talking about python in the browser. I'd guess anyone wanting to use python in the browser already knows python and already uses javascript in the browser and wants to get a way to do browser stuff with the language they like. I don't think a beginner that doesn't know either language would care to go through the hoops to get python working on the browser.

Yeah, im talking about front end really. Browser or mobile platform. I was a beginner and chose pythin because its the easiest. But i just naturally assumed because it was so popular you could build front end apps (web or otherwise) with it. But the courses out there assumed a lot of previous front end knowledge and went straight to the python version of whatever concept.

Re: Why arent there any courses teaching web development in Python?

#13

"Web development" means many different things to different people. I believe a sensible approach, for some (including me), is: 1. Learn back-end web programming (HTTP request/response model, templating, sessions, security, the REST architectural model, ORM...) with your framework of choice (Django, Flask, Litestar, Sanic...). There are many tutorials and books around. 2. Learn HTMX ( https://htmx.org/ ). A fine book…

Hmmm. Ill have a look. I guess even with PyScript which i would regard as the ultimate front end python solution you have to know HYML
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