[bvanslyke]

When I was learning web development, it was such a PITA learning rails and dealing with all the ops stuff at the same time (so I could show friends my stuff, on a real domain and everything). I envy the kiddos that can just hit the "deploy to azure" button or whatever now. (This reads like an ad for microsoft but I promise I don't work there :)

[Sanddancer]

Bingo. Too many colleges still use the ancient and terrible method of requiring one to copy to media between classes, instead of the much nicer, and simpler, git pushes and the like. Add the pain of the overhead associated with a lot of coding frameworks, and you get a lot of ideas that end up stillborn because deployment management is hard, and the free tools are terrible.