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I am a sort of experienced python programmer. I will quickly describe my situation. For a hobby programming was always nice. I then started working at a company that did lots of manual excel processing. One day I mentioned that I could probably automate this with python.
Things led to another and now there is python doing the excel work multiple times a day running from an Intel NUC i deployed as a small server. It has been some work figuring everything out but the money has been good as well, no complaints.
They are quite happy with me and have lots of different plans.
They want me to design a website where the employees can fill out a form daily and the data can be used elsewhere. However, I've done some html and css programming in highschool, but I know there needs to be a back-end to at least save the data that gets filled.
I dont know where to start. I know SQL is the #1 language in data processing and PHP in handling the back-end. But I already know python which also can do back-end operations.
I have two direct questions but also looking for advice on the whole situation. Feel free to just point anything out; I will read every comment.
My questions:
Could I run the webserver from my Intel NUC? Or is this generally seen as bad practice? Also, is it true that I would only need the domain if I run the webserver myself?
Is it worth it to learn SQL and PHP or should I stick to python?
I have tried looking online but found countless of resources. I would like to create a large database with lots of data I can use anytime. I think SQL is good for this but not looking to waste time.
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So I'v been learning how to program for about a month now. I just finished reading 'Invent your own games with python'. Before the book I had never seen a line of code. After reading the book I'm able to read code and understand what's going on. But that's about it. I got the syntax down and can use all the flow statements. I'm still not able to create my own projects and when I try to do a challenge online, I just sit there and stare at it not knowing where to start. Is this normal? Is this one of those things where one day I'm gonna wake up and It's gonna click in head. Any suggestions as too what I can do accelerate my learning?
I think you've reached the bliss point between knowing how to write Python and how to actually program.
Python is the tool, programming is the practice.
I was in your shoes a few months ago (I had finished Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, also a good book). I decided to look online for areas to practice and understand programming problems as well as improve my math skills (math shortcuts come in handy). Nothing really clicks until you've gotten a few projects accomplished.
Designing a game IS HARD and it may not be the best place to start but if that's where you want thing to click I'd highly recommend breaking games down as a programmer might: take a feature of a game, say SimCity's Sim.
What features in OOP terms does this feature have as attributes?
What does the object do?
What external classes/objects affect this object?
What does this object externally impact?
Since you're learning Python, learning how to use the OOP paradigm is crucial and designing projects around it allow you to use Python with greater strength.
It's absolutely normal to look at a problem and have no idea where to start.
That's a lack of experience. Get some.
This is where I start if I want to get a feeler for a new language: https://projecteuler.net/
There's plenty of resources online to test your skills and there's probably an offline community near you.
Yes, this is perfectly normal for any beginner.
What you need to do is just continue doing what you are doing.
The beginning will be difficult learning curve so aim for more beginner/basic level questions (i.e.: beginner level online challenges).
Develop plenty of your own programs for fun and whenever you get stuck ask online.
When other people answer your questions online look for the most elegant solutions (i.e.: quickest execution time, neat coding style, etc...) and try remember their solutions.
The fastest way (in my opinion) to learn code is to build your own programs for fun. Just never give up no matter how hard and frustrated it gets.
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I've been playing with Django for a couple of weeks and I decided to try to make my personal website with it.
The only thing I can't yet wrap my head around is how I should structure the project. The essential of the site will be a blog-like portfolio that shows projects. Those projects (comparable to categories on normal blogs) will contain posts about them.
Now my question is, should that be 1 big app or should I divide this into multiple smaller apps and in that case how would you do it?
For now it looks acceptable to have everything in one app, but my plan is to add features along the way and expand the site continuously. After some time I don't exclude the possibility that it could get pretty complex :)
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I am asking for experience (that I don't yet have), to be able to make a better choice about how I should structure my project in order to avoid having to restructure it later because I made a bad choice due to a lack of experience. Of course this requires some opinion based answers..
As you only have one category of articles, I recommend you to start with one application.
Hence, you can start with an application named projects. Then, if you want to write about your experiences, create a new application named experiences, and so on.
Personally, my portfolio is built around three categories/applications:
Skills,
Projects,
Experiences.
Applications are ideal for large Django websites. I advise you to add applications to your project when it becomes bigger and more complex. For now, make your life easier by using only one application ;)
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I need to create a website using python but without Django or any other framework, since the website I need to create ts very custom (at the back-end level specially) like having a dashboard after login and stuff like that.
I want to know what are the best practices and/or tutorials that can help me in such a situation.
I began to work with Django 3 months ago in a company. In my opinion this framework is very useful because you avoid to write a lot of HTML code and came with a lot of tools to automate the creation of many parts of the web and the database. Django allows you to use different databases.
I recommend you to visit Django Website and see the overview and the installation. The difficulties for the beginners are to understand the use of views,templates,urls... but in the web site you have a 6 steps tutorial that make a very good introduction, anyways you must get some more information like this Django Book but is almost the same than the tutorial but more extense.
I didn't work with Python until I began to use Django, and I have to say that now I love the dynamism of Python, is fast and easy to understand.
I hope this can help you a little
Using a framework like Django will start you right into developing your application. They you intend to work will cost you years of work to create your own web application infrastructure without getting anything useful.
The strength of Python is the availability of countless modules, packages and frameworks to build upon. Without there you will be getting nowhere.
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One of my web apps receives a lot of article submissions, some of them written not very well. How possible is it to create a tool to recognize "good" vs. "bad" writing just by providing it with a corpora of good and bad articles?
Note that these articles (at least the ones already processed) have been reviewed and graded, so in theory I could use these numbers to confirm output.
I don't have a background in creating "learning" algorithms, so even just a pointer to a foundational book on the subject would be helpful, particularly one written for the Python language.
I think that this would be a difficult learning algorithm to undertake. However, if you did want to have a go or are just interested to learn about the subject Coursera offer a number of free online courses that are worth checking out.
This course is not currently running for assignments etc, but you can watch the lectures in preview mode, from what I have seen this is well suited to beginners:
https://class.coursera.org/machlearning-001/lecture/preview
If you want some practice then I would highly recommend taking a look at Kaggle (http://www.kaggle.com/) which runs open competitions for data science / machine learning problems. Some of the competitions even have sample code to get you started, the titanic competition has some sample code in Python, although the problem being worked on is considerably simpler than the problem you have proposed.
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Web2py looks like a very nice Python framework but I am wondering if it is suitable to use for a large public web site. What sorts of issues might I run into? I'm not worried about technical scalability so much as UI/UX limitations, ability to connect other components, etc.
web2py is a very capable web server application framework. UI/UX (User interface / Experience) limitations does not arises usually from a server framework.
There are quite a number of free application that demonstrates it's capabilities:
http://www.web2py.com/appliances
If you want to compare it with other server frameworks, there are quite a few documents out there that you can read on.
Django, Turbo Gears, Web2Py, which is better for what?
The following discussion should add to information here
Anyone out there using web2py?
You have to be more specific to make a judgement or evaluate a server framework than what you have mentioned.
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While the examples in the link provided by mdipierro may not inspire confidence with regard to desired UI/UX solutions. It would be premature to consider that because of web2py or any other server framework. It might point to the fact that all these are implemented by a resource constrained team.
You might take a look at this list of sites powered by web2py.