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Interesting. One thing I noticed is that in your original "looking for a co-founder" post, you specifically cited "Python/Django" as a competency. This led me to believe that your prototype was either already in Python/Django, or you had a strong leaning toward that language for some other reason.

Does this mean you found a technical co-founder, and they preferred Ruby/Rails to Django/Python?

Not attempting to start a language debate, honestly. In my experience, I've found that in most cases, they're fairly interchangeable, but I am genuinely curious how you got from that post to this one.

My apologies in advance if that's listed in your blog -- I read this entry, but I do not generally follow it. If there's an answer somewhere, I wouldn't take offense to a link and a "RTFM".

Yes. Our product was already built in Python. I had no preference for a language...I didn't know anything about languages. The developers that I was first referred to were python devs.

How I went from Python to Ruby? I tried Python a couple of times on my own, "Python the Hardway" tutorials, etc. I was looking for a mentor to step through the process with me. Devbootcamp came along and offered a room of mentors. I jumped all over it. I'm not concerned with the language, just the ability to code. I plan on learning Python sometime in the near future as well.

Thanks a ton for the followup.

Was devbootcamp free when you did it? I was having almost this same conversation via email with ezl, and while I don't doubt that there are tons of Ruby/Rails resources with mentors that are very good, I find it interesting that there is a large enough dearth of resources in the Python/Django arena to warrant a $10-$12,000 course for Ruby that would work.

While I fully understand that LPTHW isn't nearly the same experience, I guess I just never noticed how little tutorials there are for Python when there is obviously so much documentation.

Regardless, congratulations on your progress. Please keep us updated, as your post was quite informative.

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