abellasmith

hello friends ... which should one learn python or asp for web development ???

DJSquared

If you had to choose out of those two, it would be ASP.

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Hobnob

Both Python and ASP are well suited for web development. However choosing one language over another truly depends on the type of website you need to create.

Python is a scripting language that can be utilized to accomplish a plethora of things; including website development. In fact Google's App Engine platform has amazing support for creating and hosting web applications written in python.

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The only tricky thing with python (assuming you are not using a specialized host) is that it's a bit difficult to get up and running. For example, it is not recommended to run python scripts using simple CGI, for reasons that I recommend you research. Therefor you have the added complication of learning mod-python, FCGI, or some other alternative.

The benefit that ASP offers here is that it is geared toward web development. Therefor you do not have to worry about the best was to serve your applications. Another added benefit that ASP offers to novices is Microsoft's development environments. Because they are geared for web development creating forms and pages as well as utilizing AJAX elements and handling data is very simple, and for the most part can be done using a graphical interface.

The drawback of ASP is that you have to have a windows hosting solution.

Putting my own prejudice aside, why not consider PHP?


Either way, I think you should decided what type of website you want to create.

However, to give you my affirmative answer, if you are just trying to learn something new I would choose Python.

BrandonG

Hobnob is entirely correct. ASP is viable and built to develop the web. Python is a general purpose language that IS viable for web development however a bit more complicated. You would need a gateway language to integrate it into your website, or a web framework such as web.py works. Python would be a great choice if you're looking to learn a new language as it could serve many purposes and is fairly easy to learn, but I would definitely recommend ASP(Or even PHP) if you're looking to learn website development.

There are plenty of web applications and websites that have been developed in python, though, if you want to give it a try.

defaultuser

How and why did you narrow it down to the two choices?

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Brian2011

I've been using ASP for years and it's a very robust language. Quite easy to build dynamic database-driven websites with it as well. Only thing is, it's getting a bit old now and if I were you I'd look into ASP.NET as this is the way forward.

Studying classic ASP first will give you a good grounding before studying .NET I have learnt a lot from the W3 schools website (google it)so go take look. They have example scripts that you can play with online - saves you a lot of time!

nmridul

Why not learn both. Python does not take much time to learn and you will find more references / frameworks online that will make it easier to write better python codes.

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