Web Developing [Necessary] Languages

[lakim0]

Hey guys,

I was just thinking what languages do I have to learn to become at least a beginner developer ?

I know it's not the right question, I asked a friend of mine and he said that he only uses HTML/CSS and a little PHP for creating sites...

I wanna learn these languages, which one do I start from ? Which ones are necessary/required ?

Only HTML/CSS/PHP ? What about Phyton etc etc...

I'm not even competent in this subject, would you mind to give me some info ?

Cheers, lakim0.

 

[N40616]

Start learning HTML and XHTML. This will give you a good foundation to learn HTML5. I would also focus on PHP so you can custom edit your wordpress themes.

 

[Abstroose]

Start with HTML and learn the fundamentals of coding a website structure. Then learn CSS to make it all pretty. Then learn PHP to really have control it and the ability to create dynamic content and communicate with databases. Javascript can also be handy to learn but not so much as 7 or 8 years ago.

 

[Junkfood00]

You have to explain what you want to accomplish, doing html/css means you're designing a website, doing php/python then you're building a functional site. You'll probably need them all later on.

 

[HFlame7]

Itachi ,

(X)HTML and CSS for standard websites. If you want to be a true web "developer" and create dynamic websites, you can learn PHP & MYSQL next. PHP is a web scripting language, while MYSQL is more for storing & extracting information from a database.

But I agree with the above post also, what are your goals specifically? There are certain languages that are better at "certain" things needed.

 

[olystyle]

Hey lakim0

If you want to get into Webdeveloping i'd suggest that you start a project: Your website made from scratch!

To do this you will have to:
1. Start with HTML - HTML is used to define the structure of a site
2. After defining the structure You obviously want to style your website - for this you will need CSS

3. Optimize your website with:
- Javascript / or a Javascript framework like Jquery, Mootools,..
- Dive into Python for as I believe its easyier to learn than PHP (PHP Syntax has a lot of <, $, and curly braces wich can be pretty hard to get into when you never programmed before...)

Most important thing you should never forget:
Everything at the beginning is hard and can take long! But with time it gets easyier...

cheers

olystyle

 

[gorang]

HTML/CSS and you can build a website. Javascript/Jquery if you want to create your own custom fancy stuff. You don't need to learn PHP in order to understand the basics of how to switch stuff up in Wordpress.

If you know all 5 of these then you're pretty much on your way. MySQL qould be next for database stuff but even then, you don't need to know the language in order tog et stuff done and work int he database.

Google is your friend for any problems you run into.

 

[proweb]

4 Languages:

1) HTML
2) CSS
3) PHP
4) MySQL

In that order.

Most of the other languages are unnecessary and if you DO need to use them, it's usually only for a very specific purpose which you can generally find a pre-existing template that you can use/copy.

 

[kelso]

Start with HTML and learn the fundamentals of coding a website structure. Then learn CSS to make it all pretty. Then learn PHP to really have control it and the ability to create dynamic content and communicate with databases. Javascript can also be handy to learn but not so much as 7 or 8 years ago.

Exactly my thoughts. Plus I'd add jquery and mysql for more flexible and kinky stuff.

 

[lakim0]

Thank you for your time & answers!

Now I got into this, pretty much.

When I had to choose a subject in the University, I wanted to learn Web Developing, but it seemed too difficult to me + it was 2 years ago + I didn't even know what Internet Marketing was.

Now I'm on my way, building sites, but I guess I need & want to learn those languages.

Is it possible to learn from 0 to 100 via Internet? I found really good tutorials, I guess it's possible.

It's great when you know all of them, if you get into trouble, you won't need to hire anyone

 

[artizhay]

Pretty much all covered, though I have to emphasize javascript, since someone said it's not as prominent as it used to be. I think javascript is more prominent than ever, especially with all these interactive HTML5 sites that often rely heavily on javascript.

Lots of clients want really slick, fancy stuff and that's where javascript comes in, and really any modern site uses javascript to make everything a bit more seamless and exciting, so I think it's completely wrong to imply that javascript is not as important to learn anymore.

 

[terrycody]

woo, nice answers guys,

HTML---u can make a static website like many years ago,not popular now!

+CSS---cool ! u found that your website is beautiful visual looked! especially CSS3!

+ASP or PHP surely, ASP outdated! so PHP would be nice !!

+javascript can be a good additional that make your site functional with the web browser!

 

[sfidirectory]

Some of the posts before me offer some pretty good advice... Here is the languages I learned in order, from 2008 until today:

• HTML
• CSS
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Javascript
• jQuery
• PHP
• MySQL
• ASP.NET (Webforms, Entity Framework, MVC) - in Visual C#

Those are the skills I have learned mostly during my studies, and experimented with them in assignments and my own time. In July I done a Ruby on Rails tutorial for a whole week, which was really good but I'll need to do it again. Learning PHP frameworks like Wordpress and CodeIgniter would be a good idea, but don't try and overload yourself with too much at once .

[EDIT]: I thought I would look up Google's cache of my Whitehat site (abandoned Wordpress in favour of cleaner uncluttered code, and went static instead) to help you out - basically the page I'm going to share is a list of links (as an html file) that have helped me out over the years. Here is the html file with the links:

View attachment handy-web-dev-links.zip

Just unzip the archive, and open the html page in your browser. You should be able to click on each link listed on the page. I don't remember if zipped html files need a virustotal scan or not, but just in case...

SHA256:     a79426f43a11fff791ba4beea674503c60c8767d9699cc5c14ba6241aceaf3f9
File name:     handy-web-dev-links.zip
Detection ratio:     0 / 46
Analysis date:     2012-12-01 02:43:27 UTC ( 0 minutes ago )

https://www.virustotal.com/file/a79426f43a11fff791ba4beea674503c60c8767d9699cc5c14ba6241aceaf3f9/analysis/1354329807/

 

[Grizzy]

Pretty much all covered, though I have to emphasize javascript, since someone said it's not as prominent as it used to be. I think javascript is more prominent than ever, especially with all these interactive HTML5 sites that often rely heavily on javascript.

Lots of clients want really slick, fancy stuff and that's where javascript comes in, and really any modern site uses javascript to make everything a bit more seamless and exciting, so I think it's completely wrong to imply that javascript is not as important to learn anymore.

+1.

JavaScript is the most important to learn going into 2013. Not only can it be used to add those fancy/slick effects, but everyday it is doing more and more of the "heavy lifting" that was once reserved for server-side scripts.

 

[sirgold]

+1. JavaScript is the most important to learn going into 2013. Not only can it be used to add those fancy/slick effects, but everyday it is doing more and more of the "heavy lifting" that was once reserved for server-side scripts.

^ This and I'll go a step further. While your usual LAMP skills are close to "mandatory" (might want to give a shot to node.js and python when you become proficient on the server-side) the REAL way to be ahead of the pack for all the little thingies WE (bh'tters) do IS to learn and stay current on the client-side with js, various frameworks and html5. Be sure to be the guy that knows more than a bunch of normal web developers to be the first to leverage a certain poor design (plenty as HTML 5 evolves) and without javascript your close to square one. Not to mention you might want to start coding bots at some point and without a solid understanding of the DOM... good luck.

 

[Jenny30]

Html, css and then php, they are going to work good for you.

 

[lakim0]

Very helpful answers guys, I didn't expect to get such a good help : ))

I've read all your posts, understanding now, HTML/CSS/PHP etc etc...

All of them are necessary as well, I found some good tutorials (Thank you sfidirectory) and will possibly start from now on.

Regards, lakim0.

 

[ramnath]

Great answers .. I had this question in my mind too .. Thank yu so much guys ..

 

[QuiGloriam]

I would recommend:

-HTML5 - Necessary, no website without HTML
-CSS3 - To make your web beautiful, not just text and tables, necessary
-PHP - To create dynamic websites, also necessary
-MYSQL - If you work with PHP you must know MYSQL Database
-JQUERY (Javascript library) - Necessary nowadays, javascript too difficult to learn, jQuery easy, to add real time and fast performance.

With this you can create almost all. Facebook use PHP and MYSQL Every website use HTML and CSS, jQuery used by Google, Digg...

If you want ultra advanced sites like twitter, facebook or google you must use a large amount of different lenguages like C++ or Java , different databases and a lot of stuff, don't even worry about it, you must have a team and quality members specialized on each field.

 

[artizhay]

Mm...you shouldn't learn jQuery and skip over javascript, as suggested above, because the underlying jQuery is, I don't know, based on javascript. If you don't know how to use javascript, you'll never understand what you're doing in jQuery.