Den-Dezyn Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Hi i have just been on Nettuts+ and they are starting a series of tuts from scratch on Python. I dont know what it is and should i learn it or should i concentrate on some other programming tool. Your expert views are definitely requested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 That depends what your goals are. Python is a good language for a lot of things.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApocalypeX Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Python is a general purpose scripting language for doing... everything almost. If you want to learn it go ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Den-Dezyn Posted May 7, 2011 Author Share Posted May 7, 2011 After some thought i have decided to leave Python for now as i want to learn javascript first then i think i will go on to php i think this will be more useful to me as things stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffman Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Probably a good idea. I always recommend learning JavaScript before learning any server-side language anyway. Python and Ruby show promise as server-side languages, but they don't have nearly the community support that PHP does. In 10 years, who knows? 15 years ago, Perl was the language of choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fmdpa Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 I haven't really looked into Python, but I know that Ruby would beat PHP into the dust if PHP didn't have the advantage of simple deployment and widespread support on servers. Ruby, although much more concise, is slightly harder to deploy and isn't supported on as many web servers. AFAIK, Python also promotes readable code as does Ruby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 PHP actually gets something of a bad reputation because of its users. It's perfectly possible to write very efficient, secure, elegant, readable code with PHP. The problem is the multitude of users who don't know how to program and go around copying and pasting code without understanding it, and ending up with poorly-written, inefficient, insecure code. Then they decide that since they know so much PHP, might as well put up a blog to teach others, and then you've got the blind leading the blind. That type of situation just comes from PHP being so widespread and easy to get into, but it's not a fault of the language itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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