I want to learn to write a program to do some simple maths calculations my best programming language is “basic” but I would prefer to utilise PHP - but I do not find it as intuitive.
The functions that will most necessarily be involved are the “if”; “what if”; “else”; “loops ” and “goto” functions
I would welcome recommendation from members as to which language would be best for me to learn at 70 years of age
As would I. From what I can recall, having not really done much with BASIC in a long while, BASIC was pretty easy to read and understand. Python places a lot of emphasis on keeping code readable, understandable, and simple wherever possible.
Python may not be your best bet for games, sure. (I’d probably look into Unity if that’s what you’re into.)
For websites, though, Python is perfectly fine - the Django framework is written in Python, and you create websites using Django through a combination of the usual suspects (HTML, CSS and JS) as well as Python.
It’s certainly not slow, as there are several “A-list” websites that are powered by Django - like, I believe, the Mozilla Organisation’s site, and Instagram.
Hmm… Maybe it’s just me than. I had some experience with some websites that tend to take long (at least 400ms) to reload a page. I don’t think those are based on Django tho so you are probably right.
Django isn’t the only option (flask comes to mind), but like with every tool it can be “abused”, a website can be written in PHP/go/nodeJS and still be very slow because the developer didn’t know what he was doing. Code can be written in assembly or C and still be slow if done incorrectly
its easy to blame the tool, although this is not always true
But we are getting off-topic (a little bit)
lets stick with that python is a very good candidate for what ozwaz requires.