On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Michael Butler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Honestly I don't have a specific goal

Yeah, you need something to build.

> and I do already work in a totally unrelated field.

So build something unrelated.  If you want into web development, build
a simple inventory system or shopping cart as a first project.  Learn
to take data from an html form and put it into a database, and then
learn to get it out of the database and drawn back into html.

> Where would you advise someone like me, no experience at all to start? Web
> development and move into Python or Ruby? Or straight into a programming
> language?

Python is a great first language.  Ruby is slightly more exotic but
has a high fun level, I'd learn it second.  At some point in learning
web development you'll want to learn Javascript to do anything cool.
Later you'll grow tired of writing tons of home grown code and you'll
want to learn some frameworks like Django, Rails, and jQuery.



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