Question

if i want to build a real time website like openstudy, what languages should i be looking at, starting from the most basic to the most advanced... please list the very relevant languages i'll need to know :)

Answer 1

javascript php

Answer 2

first learn C programming language , with this you can learn any other languages very easily. Its a CORE .

Answer 3

i see, i never thought C could be used to implement web development projects

Answer 4

no u don't need to learn C....

Answer 5

C is a programming language , if u can learn this , u can learn and understand any other language in cs

Answer 6

yes if you can learn C you will probably can learn others but I can say same about PHP if you learn PHP you can probably learn others

Answer 7

see now you r proving my point too

Answer 8

i never said it wrong, but he don't need to learn C

Answer 9

i dnt knw about javascript php , will learn in comming semesters :)

Answer 10

then only i can say about it

Answer 11

:)

Answer 12

Well, OpenStudy is pretty complex in terms of the number of technologies we use. I'd probably start with PHP and work with that for awhile to get your Web Development chops. It won't be realtime, but you've got to start with the basics. :)

Answer 13

what about ruby? would u recommend it in place of php?

Answer 14

A site like OpenStudy sends web pages written in HTML. The design/formatting is written in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). That will get the user a static (except for some eye candy) page. Any logic on the client side (like when more posts are added to the list) is done with javascript.

On the server-side, a programming language, probably one of the "P" languages (Perl, Python or PHP) is used. All of the posts, user prefs, all the tidbits of information are probably kept in an SQL (Standard Query Language) database.

So to do a site like this would require HTML, CSS, javascript, a programming language and SQL at a minimum. Then you need to consider how the graphics will be made: Photoshop, GIMP?

A lot of the time, this type of thing is done with LAMP ( Linux, Apache, MySQL and a "P" language ). Hey, somebody has to keep the thing running day to day!

Answer 15

or maybe RRRR language? like ruby :P

Answer 16

So, in re: ruby: While Ruby is a beautiful language, and I use it for most new projects - it's incredibly difficult to configure the first time around. That and Rails, the most popular Web framework for Ruby, changes really quickly - so finding up-to-date documentation can be difficult.