[lug] First Programming Language

[Will]

I would point her to Ruby on Rails.  It takes care of the connection to the
data, object relational mapping and breaks your app down into three easy to
understand layers model, view and controller.  It has great documentation
and is a mature framework, http://guides.rubyonrails.org/.  The equivalent
in the Python world would be Django.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Rob Nagler <nagler at bivio.biz> wrote:

> If it's Python she wants to learn, then use Flask or something like it.
> This is a nice tutorial:
>
> https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-
> tutorial-part-i-hello-world
>
> If it's Javascript, then Express.js is easy, too:
>
> https://medium.com/@adnanrahic/hello-world-app-with-node-js-and-express-
> c1eb7cfa8a30
>
> Maybe she'd like to learn R? There's a Shiny server, which will let you
> build web apps in R:
>
> http://rstudio.github.io/shiny/tutorial/#hello-shiny
>
> I would think R would be most useful, because it's high level with many
> concepts that map to the business world.
>
> Rob
>
>
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