By working on something - think of something - anything, start building it.
Once you do that - find a better way to do everything you just did, it's called re factoring.
As other people have stated, don't be afraid to use Google, IRC or even forums.
Python seems to be the language of choice for learning and you can get started by using Google App Engine for free if you don't want to deal with Server Config (but please realize you can't dodge this forever).
If you go the rails route you can use Heroku, it's very good from my understanding. I've only used it briefly.
I'd say it's recommended that you learn how to install MySQL, PHP/Python/Rails on your server. That will give you a big heads up.
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By working on something - think of something - anything, start building it.
Once you do that - find a better way to do everything you just did, it's called re factoring.
As other people have stated, don't be afraid to use Google, IRC or even forums.
Python seems to be the language of choice for learning and you can get started by using Google App Engine for free if you don't want to deal with Server Config (but please realize you can't dodge this forever).
If you go the rails route you can use Heroku, it's very good from my understanding. I've only used it briefly.
I'd say it's recommended that you learn how to install MySQL, PHP/Python/Rails on your server. That will give you a big heads up.
Good luck!?