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What Computer Programming Language Should I learn?
What computer language do I want to learn if I want to make good, solid, and interactive web pages? I already know html, xhtml, and css. Is there any scrip language like javascript or php i should learn? Thanks
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- javascript is a clientside language, it would be beneficial to learn it no matter what serverside language you wish to learn I like PHP, but it tends to be not as mainstream as ASP or Java
- HTML and Javascript are used most often to create websites. So I'd probably suggest Javascript. It is used for a lot of other things too, especially graphical and interactive type content.
- Yes, javascript works with web pages and forms and it can be really fun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language "PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://www.php.net/ Another scripting language gaining popularity is Python, it is object oriented - may be good to focus on that as less people know it and NASA uses it. http://www.python.org/ There's lots of other languages to like mozquito and TCL, check out this forum http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/www8/script.html
- You could also try Python. It is free and easy to learn. A few web frameworks use Python as a programming language. The Apache web server, for example, has a python module available. Django is a a pretty well known web framework that uses Python. Ruby is another up and coming programming language. Ruby on Rails is, from what I hear, an excellent web development environment as well.
