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Justin Mullis
1,440 PointsNew but already enjoying Treehouse
I'm currently an IT guy but I've gotten pretty bored lately and I wanted to look into coding as something to do on the side or maybe full time. I bounced around a little bit looking for a way to get started, I saw Python suggested as a good "first language" so I started with it. Originally I went through Learn Python The Hard Way, which was great but trying to leap from that to Flask or Django basically blew a few circuits. I was trying to figure out Git, Heroku, WSGI, DB work all at the the same time.
Even though going through Treehouse means sort of jumping ship on Python I think I'm ok with it, the way the lessons are laid out and the fact that I actually have a path from A to B that makes sense is giving me some confidence to actually get this done instead of floundering around.
4 Answers
Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherHi Justin,
That's awesome to hear! We're hoping to offer Python in the future, but for now, there are certainly many other languages and platforms we do offer to get you started with creating web and mobile apps. :) Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsYou can check out this blog post a someone posted entitled how I taught myself to code in 8 weeks, it features Python & Django.
Spen Taylor
13,027 PointsSeems like a good read so far! as do the articles the post references :) Thanks James!
Justin Mullis
1,440 PointsHaha James, that would have been an awesome post to find about a week ago :) I will say that a lot of what I learned from Python has translated nicely to Ruby so far!