I\'m a college student that has only used swing with Java and tkinter with Pytho

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I'm a college student that has only used swing with Java and tkinter with Python and built really plain looking desktop apps (i.e. a calculator).

I have some free time this semester and I want to build an interactive GUI/webapp (sorry if I'm not using the correct terminology) that looks something like: http://www.tankathon.com/teams/spurs

What technologies would I have to learn to build something like this? Would I be able to build it off Heroku, or would I have to learn html/css/javascript (or RoR?) to build something beautiful?

Explanation / Answer

Well, a bit of research (i.e. looking at the links and the javascript in the page source) show that the page is implemented using jQuery and Highcharts.js. So they would be some of the tools you could use to implement a page like this. Another popular tool for responsive web design is Bootstrap.

In fact, that website's "beautifulness" and responsiveness comes from the client-side code (JS and CSS) that is being used here ... and good web design skills / execution. The choice of server-side framework (RoR, Heroku, whatever) is largely orthogonal.

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