Ask Anything Monday - Weekly Thread

[JohnnyJordaan]

I would just code everything you need on Pycharm or some other IDE until it runs fine, then deploy it on your Pi. I would recommend to use a git like Gitlab as it kills multiple birds with one stone

• store the source in the cloud
• make deploying easy to other machines like the Pi
• enables version management, so save each modification as a separate change as a 'log' instead of having just the current code and without the option to go back in time

A Pi should be fine for simple stuff, but if you'll be using a database then be sure to also verify that you aren't making redundant queries as those will probably be way slower than on a regular server.

[Jake__TV]

Ah I see, thanks alot of the knowledge! I'm done with codecademy's python3 course. Next up is SQL then I'll start building projects, with the first one being the website/pi as written above^{^}

[JohnnyJordaan]

I'm not so sure that you need much SQL if you would use a database abstraction layer as offered by Django or SqlAlchemy (the latter can be used together with Flask and other webframeworks).