Building a simple web app
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mattbellI have no background in web programming.
In my quest to build a picture-matching application, I'm learning a lot about it very quickly.
Web programming appears to be a world with a rapidly evolving interlocking set of programming languages and techniques. There seem to be a large number of ways of doing anything, but it's unclear what's best.
I have learned Python (though I'm still quite slow and my coding style probably has a heavy C/C++ accent). I've learned enough about the Eclipse development environment to start writing and testing programs in it. I've also learned the Flickr API. At this point, I have a program that generates queries to Flickr, pulls down the results of the queries, and isolates the URLs of the appropriately sized pictures I want to use.
It feels like I'm half done, but I know the other 'half' could take quite a while.
So I'm curious -- for those of you who do web programming, can you recommend a good introduction to building a basic modern web app? I'd prefer something that lets me use Python for the backend, but I'm open to a wide variety of options. Keep in mind I don't know anything about Ruby on Rails, AJAX, CSS etc so I should get a good global picture of web programming best practices before diving into the details.
My short-term goal is to be able to create an interactive app that presents picture pairs to users and records their votes of them into a database. Once I get that working, I will gradually start adding new features.
In my quest to build a picture-matching application, I'm learning a lot about it very quickly.
Web programming appears to be a world with a rapidly evolving interlocking set of programming languages and techniques. There seem to be a large number of ways of doing anything, but it's unclear what's best.
I have learned Python (though I'm still quite slow and my coding style probably has a heavy C/C++ accent). I've learned enough about the Eclipse development environment to start writing and testing programs in it. I've also learned the Flickr API. At this point, I have a program that generates queries to Flickr, pulls down the results of the queries, and isolates the URLs of the appropriately sized pictures I want to use.
It feels like I'm half done, but I know the other 'half' could take quite a while.
So I'm curious -- for those of you who do web programming, can you recommend a good introduction to building a basic modern web app? I'd prefer something that lets me use Python for the backend, but I'm open to a wide variety of options. Keep in mind I don't know anything about Ruby on Rails, AJAX, CSS etc so I should get a good global picture of web programming best practices before diving into the details.
My short-term goal is to be able to create an interactive app that presents picture pairs to users and records their votes of them into a database. Once I get that working, I will gradually start adding new features.
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Date: 2009-07-18 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-19 09:42 pm (UTC)I got the impression it was the Python equivalent of Ruby on Rails (but I could be making an invalid comparison, so others should feel free to correct me).