[Svetlitski]

While I don’t use it anymore and have been out of the web dev space completely for a few years now, I personally feel I owe a lot to Django. It’s the framework behind the first software I wrote that other people actually used and depended on. While looking back at it now the first Django code I wrote was pretty awful, it’s astonishing how much the framework lets you accomplish. Without knowing much at all about web development or databases, following the Django tutorial is sufficient to get you started with a very basic web app, and you can grow from there. Couple this with the superpower that was deploying to Heroku, and it made for a fantastic introduction to web dev and shipping software to real users.