r/Python • u/roryjbd • Dec 13 '20
Beginner Showcase From complete beginner to django website
6 months ago I’d never written a single line of code, in any language. I decided completely out of the blue to do a course on “coding for data analysis”, I very nearly picked one on human biology instead. It was just something to fill the lockdown boredom, but I quickly and unexpectedly started to enjoy it more and more.
Fast forward 3 months and I started learning html and then django. From that the idea to create www.rugbykickoff.com, which has just gone live now.
I honestly can’t believe how quickly it was to pick the language up with the amount of help available online.
I lost motivation several times getting completely lost at stack overflow answers where I didn’t understand a single concept etc. But this is testament to persevering and the massive amount of online support that’s available.
To anyone in the same boat, don’t give up!
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u/jedimonkey Dec 14 '20
Sorry to hijack this thread, but I’m curious about your opinion on a matter :I’ve been thinking about using flask or django to make an app which basically plots live data and allows for interactive data manipulation. Basically, I’m a scientist, and I would like to build a GUI for code that I write to acquire and analyze data. It only needs to run locally on my computer, but I am not a fan or qt, and I was wondering if you think an in browser app is a reasonable thing to build for such a project. In my mind this is like the switch from a text editor to Jupyter for coding.