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by jaddison 4850 days ago
Spend a few days reading to discover what boils your passion in tech - congratulations, you've found a good starting point... now focus on it until you have a good grasp.

eg. Like the idea of a framework for web dev? Then read up on Rails and Django, and be sure to examine the underlying languages. Which do you identify with more? Dig into that one more. Join their IRC channels to get into the community.

(of course, it doesn't have to be Rails or Django you look at - anything!)

The important thing in any problem is to break it down into manageable chunks. Otherwise it all seems insurmountable.

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Personal point here - really in python I would steer clear of the frameworks till wsgi is embedded in your head - read the pep 333 and webob and webtest docs - now get your own wsgi server running inside say gunicorn and just work out what's going on

I am sure that sounds overwhelming but ...

It sounded overwhelming and after quick skims on some articles about the stuff you recommended, it felt very overwhelming! But that's good I guess, I just have to push through the initial barrier most likely.

Thanks a lot!