[Chicago] I don't get the web, was Re: py for TurboGears

[Peter Fein]

On Monday 11 December 2006 09:47, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Pre-requisites: know about programming and web servers.

So I managed to miss the Web revolution in programming by about a year or two, 
and now it's gotten unapproachably complex.  I sorta understand the basic 
concepts of Apache, HTTP, cookies, javascript, DOM, XML, CSS, REST, etc., 
well enough to talk about them intelligently. But not nearly well as I'd like 
or well enough to write my own code.

Any book recommendations for getting started with Web programming?  Python 
preferred obviously, but not strictly required.  Full disclosure tho: I 
despise PHP & don't have a very high opinion of J2EE or whatever the 
Java-monster-du-jour is.

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