I'm right there with you.

People need to quit being so goddamned sensitive. Allowing yourself to be "microaggressed" is fucking weak and pathetic.

You must be my clone - or maybe I'm yours?

I made a tic-tac-toe game in javascript/html, a todo list app (like everyone else) with jQuery, some crud apps in Meteor that were used at work, and now backend Python restful apis that will be consumed by mobile apps. I learned a lot from every project, I think the important thing is to make as many small projects as you can and evaluate them to see how you can improve. What types of projects you take on will determine what type of programming you'll be learning.

I agree, I think it's very outdated and looks like shit.

I'd like to note that I suggested tkinter as possibly the easiest to get started, not the best. It's been a while since I've been focused on Python GUI development but in my experience, Kivy seems to be the most promising. I've used it for trivial applications and I thought it was pretty easy to work with, but getting it set up was a PITA.

I think you may be incorrect, I primarily use OSX and all of my Python development has been done on OSX, and I know that I've used tkinter on my system. It's been a long time though, I don't remember if I had to do something special to get it setup. I'll try it out tomorrow on my Mac and post results if I run into any roadblocks.

Any idea what version of Python you were using?

I've used tkinter a bit. I think that's the easiest to get started with because it's a standard Python module (you don't need to install anything to use it). I remember when I was trying to write a Python gui app, I researched all the options I could find, but nothing was very satisfying. Kivy (http://kivy.org) is pretty awesome, but getting it set up on my Mac was pretty painful. This was over a year ago, things might be more streamlined now. Kivy is supposed to be cross platform and work on mobile devices as well. I hope this helps.

Because if you're using Angular or something like that you likely don't need jQuery?

Anyone who suggests a specific language/ framework as the best is dead wrong. Rails is old news anyway, I think it's popularity will only continue to decline.