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Working on startups (and any webapp), the general advice says that if you are a designer, you should have at least the basics of programming so you have some understanding of what they are expecting and vice versa.

As a designer, it is pretty easy to find a "Rails 101" with a "Hello World" and learn the basics in a few days. In my case, I'm a programmer and want to know the basics of design. What would be the best approach? Most of the tutorials I see about design, seem to consider that you know the basics.

So, basically, I want the "Hello World" of web design. Where is it?

First of all, I know this has been asked to death here, but after searching a lot, the most recent post is more than a year old, and a lot has changed in these frameworks lately.

I'm a fairly experienced developer (Java, C#, Objective-C) and I want to try my luck with some webapps. I've used python for small things, but nothing that you wouldn't learn in a week, so basically, I'm new to python or ruby.

So, assuming I'm already a programmer and want to learn web programming with any of the above, which one would you recommend based on their functionalities and ease of learning?