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by UUMMUU 4098 days ago
Nice screenname (fellow Virginian). I think if they're going to mention learning the languages of the web you want to first whet their appetite with HTML, CSS, and JS and then break them into backend coding. HTML,CSS,JS are somewhat of a package deal where as python is really something that you'd learn after you learn those. I think it's fair to leave it out for the beginner learning about how websites are built.
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I agree that they are a package deal. It would have been better to separate Python and include it with something like Ruby then link offsite for both of those languages. To say that it's completely unrelated to the web I think is an overstatement.

I probably learned more about the front end of the web as a side effect of writing scrapers in Python than I did on just tutorials directly about the front end. Then I started writing some front end stuff and it was easier to grasp because of that experience. I just wouldn't assume that everyone approaches learning the web from the same angle and limit them to only learning the front-end-three.

HTML, CSS, and JS were already listed first. It's a bit silly to omit the backend entirely
It's not a matter of order, it's a categorical difference.