Hey guys,
Long time, no post. Life is good and all that, school, work, gf, the usual. Anyways, I am pretty experienced at programming (java, C, some python), but I want to learn about how to make websites. So my question is, what should I learn?? Obviously I need to learn some HTML, but beyond that, where should I go to learn?? I will describe what I want to do in a little more detail. In my applied math class last quarter, we made a model for finding the best bike paths based on user preferences (comfort with traffic, desire to avoid hills, safety concerns, desire to get to destination quickly, ect). The model works well, but we just manually collected data (elevation, speed limit, distance, ect) from areas using google earth. But ideally, this should be a website that scrapes data from the Google Maps API.So my question is two-fold. What should I start learning if I want to get into designing modern, useful webpages and how useful will Google Map API be to get the some of the above listed data?? Does anyone here have experience with Google Map API?? Thanks!tylerthemiler
Start with HTML and CSS, then move on to PHP and Javascript.
What KaBob said.
Thanks KaBob (was getting a little off topic there :P ).
Ya, RHCP rocks. I have kinda moved on musically since they were my first true musical love, but they are still classic.Learn GML…oh wait.
HTML, CSS and Swedish.
Just learn Finnish. Everything will be fine.
I like your avatar.
You could also use Python instead of PHP.
It depends on what kind of website you would like to make. But you should know HTML regardless. CSS is needed for designing pages.
PHP is a server-side language that this site is coded in. So, if you wanna make logins and showing news and stuff, then you will need to know something like PHP, python, asp(in visual studio), etc.To use an API, you may need to know PHP, or maybe it just uses an <iframe> in html.Thanks everyone! :D Learned me a bunch of HTML and some javascript. Still a n00b tho. I already know python, so maybe I'll stick with that for server-side stuff?? Is python a viable alternative to php?? Next, I think I'll do some js Google Maps API tutorials.
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