Would you recommend PYTHON to a coding newbie?
 

Why or why not?

Thanks in advance

Not sure it's used that commonly in adult but sure, why not.

Personally, I would go with JavaScript since it can be used in every browser and server with Node.

We're moving off a custom cms coded in python. Python sucks.

Depends on what you want to do...

I love python. It powers all of my websites. It's a great language for learning, too; lots of colleges use it for their first computer science course. You can do almost anything with it, and the code is usually easier to write than most other languages.

In order to run a high-traffic website without headaches you have to choose the right framework and deploy it properly. I use tornado behind nginx. Flask inside gunicorn behind nginx is great too. Most of the other frameworks are either uncommonly used or less convenient for high-traffic apps.

Can a newbie do Javascript? Even with absolutely ZERO prior coding experience?

I want to code responsive forms

If you want to develop your own stuff python is fine...if you want to freelance for others you will need to learn PHP and JavaScript because it's common...

if you study this stuff you can learn it just like you learned html or anything else.

python is mainly used for parsing large data sets in real time. unless that's what you're doing, there's better ways to serve porn sites. js + bootstrap is more than enough for a responsive form and there's a market for those skills.

#porncms

Yes.

Then you want to do javascript and get a real good handle on css. Responsive is almost all on the browser side, not the server. Python is a server side language.

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