i wanna develop a website like codeacademy were the user can just write their code and compile it online. what are the necessary tools and steps that need to be taken in developing such a site? www.codeacademy.com

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e.mccormick · Answer

Well, you need to take in the code, run it through a back end that processes it, and spit back the results. That probably means some sort of contained environment for the coding so that it can't be used to raid the back end environment. You need a front end capable language, which can be Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, or a number of others. This will generally be fed through a web server, like Apache. Rather than reinvent the wheel, why not look into projects that are out there? http://codiad.com/ http://www.eclipse.org/orion/ https://c9.io/ http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/cloud-ide-developers/

anonymous · Answer

thanks but what do you mean when you say look into other projects that are already out there? do you mean that i can use them for my projects?

e.mccormick · Answer

Did you follow any of those links?  Read what those are.