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    Quote Originally Posted by Elysia View Post
    I suppose you could, but it will be far easier with technologies dedicated to that purpose.
    Don't use a hammer to screw a screw.
    Well, to be frank, all you need for a language to work on the server side is to set up an interpreter so that the code you feed to it will generate a page on the server side. With python, that basically means ... installing python. So it would also be good not to call a screwdriver a hammer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elysia
    C++ and Python are not web technologies. Sure, could can make a server and a client with C++/Python, but most people these days expect it to be web based so it can be accessed everywhere, anytime. Also, if you use C++/Python, then you are going to have a hard time getting your social network to work on mobile devices.
    Best bet is to use server side technologies to make the server and the web browser for the client side (which means HTML/CSS/[Javascript/Typescript]).
    Quote Originally Posted by Elysia
    I suppose you could, but it will be far easier with technologies dedicated to that purpose.
    Don't use a hammer to screw a screw.
    Considering that server side web development in Python with the Django web framework is how I make a living these days...
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    Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
    Considering that server side web development in Python with the Django web framework is how I make a living these days...
    Awkward...
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    Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
    Considering that server side web development in Python with the Django web framework is how I make a living these days...
    Hmmm. Never really heard of Python being a popular web language, but I digress, as I've never used it.
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    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elysia View Post
    I suppose you could, but it will be far easier with technologies dedicated to that purpose.
    Don't use a hammer to screw a screw.
    Yeah, but you can get the screw in the wall with a hammer much faster.
    It just tends to fall back out very quickly.

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    Thanks very much for the guide guys so guess and learn Django/python for the server side coding and for the Clientside html5, css and JavaScritpt/TypeScript... is this ok??

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    html5/css, you mean html5/css3.

    The really important thing, in my opinion, is to learn concepts and not just some languages.
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    Thanks very much @std10093 i'll take that very seriously i just wanted to have a direction on how to do more programming....

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