Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Writing and Teaching by Tracy Osborn on How to Build A Web App

What are you working on—on the side?

My main side project has been my book series, “Hello Web App!” I taught myself how to code Python quite a few years ago to launch a startup, and over the years of learning more and more about programming, I kept thinking about things I wish were taught better once I actually understood them. I realized that I couldn’t just wait for someone else to do it—I needed to write the resource I wish existed.

“Hello Web App!” teaches web app development using Python a...