Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Torrie Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Writing a Financial Services App in Python Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:25:08 -0700 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <6f4f4d39-d33b-46dd-bda7-afeb2f0dbef4@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de pHLOGlbXF6J8uc6g6onbEQjkUcVyo2AbRQTChOQcAe1A== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.029 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.94; '*S*': 0.00; 'yet.': 0.03; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'iterate': 0.09; 'subject:Writing': 0.09; 'tutorials,': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'python.': 0.11; 'apps': 0.15; 'languages.': 0.15; 'prototype': 0.15; 'founders': 0.16; 'from:addr:torriem': 0.16; 'from:name:michael torrie': 0.16; 'programmers.': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'require.': 0.16; 'sad': 0.16; 'subject:App': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'app': 0.16; 'programmer': 0.18; 'input': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; 'hire': 0.20; 'developer': 0.20; 'fairly': 0.22; 'users,': 0.22; 'programming': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; "python's": 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.26; 'appear': 0.26; '----': 0.27; 'pieces': 0.27; 'initial': 0.28; 'there.': 0.30; 'you?': 0.30; 'programmers': 0.30; 'url:python': 0.33; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.34; 'ones': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'too': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'needed': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'founder': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'say': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'doing': 0.38; 'employees': 0.38; 'feedback': 0.38; 'why': 0.39; 'sure': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'application': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'company': 0.60; 'forget': 0.60; 'your': 0.60; 'hope': 0.61; 'programs': 0.62; 'yes': 0.62; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'more': 0.63; 'experience.': 0.66; 'wanting': 0.66; 'goals': 0.67; 'business': 0.69; 'analysis': 0.72; 'sounds': 0.76; 'subject:Services': 0.78; 'front.': 0.84; 'gains': 0.84; 'start.': 0.84; 'streams': 0.84; 'url:learn': 0.84; 'choices.': 0.91; 'site?': 0.91; 'stretch': 0.91; 'dollars': 0.98 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at torriefamily.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:99072 On 11/19/2015 09:20 AM, Cai Gengyang wrote: > Sure ... is this : https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python a good > place to learn Python ? Why not have a look first at the many tutorials, including the ones on Python's web site? You need to explore feasibility first before you go too far. Python is not the only language out there. I happen to like it, but there are other popular choices. An experienced developer can pick up and program in any language very quickly. Also you need to know a lot more than just programming in Python. You will need to know the various web development technologies and languages. I don't say this just to discourage you up front. I say this from a lot of sad experience. Your goals are *very* ambitious. I've seen fairly straightforward web apps stretch out into years and many tens of thousands of dollars with whole teams of programmers. And it does not appear you have any programming experience at all yet. Forget about a web app for now. Work on the pieces like the algorithms needed for doing the analysis you require. Do some simple programs that only do console input and output. > Are you wanting to contract with some programmers to create this > application for you? ---- Eventually I will have to find programming > co-founders and employees to create and iterate the product as user > feedback streams in. But I will write the initial prototype myself > because I plan to be the main programmer / founder , but yes ... > eventually I will need 1 or even 2 co-founders and when the platform > gains enough users, we will have to hire programmers and sales/ > business people. But this will be a tech-heavy company and all the > main founders and employees should be excellent programmers. But for > the moment, I plan to write the initial prototype myself ... Sounds ambitious! Hope you have a business plan in mind from the start.