quick question

Hotman

hey, not sure if this is the right place or not but here goes.

im planning on learning a language, for developing a website and backend for what will hopefully be a company some day. but i don't think dreamweaver will be enough, i'd like to be able to do alot of thing's with the site/application.
Just basically looking for some suggestions of good languages/programs to start to put some time into learning..

like VB, C, C++ etc

Thanks guys!

Joneser

Well for the frontend design I suggest learning a browser scripting language such as JavaScript along with all the things every web developer should know such as HTML and CSS. As for building the backend to a site I have found MySQL to be fairly easy to learn is widely used.

That is just my experience from when I have dabbled in web development work, I'm sure someone with much more experience here will give you a more concrete answer.

Hotman

Joneser wrote: »

Well for the frontend design I suggest learning a browser scripting language such as JavaScript along with all the things every web developer should know such as HTML and CSS. As for building the backend to a site I have found MySQL to be fairly easy to learn is widely used.

That is just my experience from when I have dabbled in web development work, I'm sure someone with much more experience here will give you a more concrete answer.

thanks so much bro, what would you recommend yourself then to say in a year be confidently making websites or even to be making small apps etc. is there any good erm, "combination" of them to learn together?

like javascript, html, and mysql? would they give evertything needed? and are any of these like C++ or any of those? or are they just specific to making websites?

thanks so much for the quick response!

Joneser

This is a great site for learning about web development: http://www.w3schools.com/

Personally I would say to learn HTML and CSS from the "HTML Tutorials" section on the left. JavaScript from the "Browser Scripting" section, and SQL from the "Server Scripting" section. That would give you a good foundation in web development and then if you choose you can move into other sections.

That site also includes a great section on how to build a professional site: http://www.w3schools.com/site/site_intro.asp

and are any of these like C++ or any of those? or are they just specific to making websites?

None of these would be like C++ really, they are specific to making websites whereas C++ is generally used to make stand-alone applications.

tricky D

Avoid Dreamweaver. It's great for production but not good for design and learning. Start with xhtml and css at w3schools, then you can choose to move on to stuff like JavaScript including (AJAX, jQuery, JSON....), Java, Ruby, php and MySQL and so on.

Dave!

Start with XHTML and CSS, and get competent with them. Throw in a bit of JavaScript every so often, and then get good with that. You should probably also get a copy of Photoshop and go through a few tutorials. That'll cover the front-end part.

For back-end stuff, PHP is probably the most popular language, for use with a MySQL database.

I guess those should get you started. There's heaps of free tutorials and ebooks around the internet, if you know where to look. Not sure what your background is, but it'll be easier if you already have a programming background.

I wouldn't bother with Dreamweaver btw... Just download Notepad++, and code things by hand.