To Become a Web Developer

Friends, I am planning to study programming for Web development. But i am little confuse about this. To become a good Website Development programmer , which things i need for study. Firstly i think PHP and then .......

 

There is a huge scope for PHP & MySql programers. After that go for the Open source Programming like Joomal, Drupal, wordpress etc.

 

Hello

First study the basics of PHP and MYSQL.This is the Backbone.after understanding MVC pattern you can study wordpress,joomla,magento easily.
if you need any personal assistance PM me.

 

My highly company of 8 years uses none of that, except mySQL on occasion, which goes to show you what lousy advice you get on DP.

 

go to w3school.com this site has many useful tutorial

 

PHP is the most popular language for web dev. However, there is more money to be made in ASP (big corps, gov'ts, etc use ASP) and other .net langauges.

There are many free tutorials out there as axemgm mentioned, but your best bet would be to register into a college level program and learn the industry standards.

Good luck!

 

You could also go for the Java technology stack, JSP/Servlets. Now that oracle owns sun, it is equally used similar to .Net.

 

here's a HECK of a lot to learn to be able to do web development effectively. Just to be ABLE to do it, you have to learn:

HTML
CSS
PHP or some other server-side language
To do it EFFECTIVELY, you've got a lot more to learn:

SQL
JavaScript
libraries and frameworks
a bug tracking system
Subversion or some other revision control system
IDEs
other tools
Apache
Linux command line
To do it WELL, there's even more:

usability
unobtrusive JavaScript
separation of concerns (MVC, etc)
testing
customer relations
HTTP protocol
AJAX
I think that skipping PHP and the others and going straight to Rails is a good idea. Maybe. At least if he's talented. But he'll still have to learn a lot of things before he's any good at creating a site. (Don't forget that we found Rails easy to learn because we already knew a lot about web development.) He'll still have to understand HTML and CSS. The Agile Web Development with Rails books is excellent, but it takes a lot to get through. If you're the type who can read a manual to learn how to do something, then it's fine. But if you need to start out with a tutorial, then you'll need to start with a different book. If you do go this route, I'd recommend learning in this order:

HTML
CSS
Apache (as little as possible to get two virtual hosts running)
Rails
Subversion
Test-Driven Development
Ruby
SQL
If you want to make a living at it, I'd expect it to take at least a year of full-time (self-)education. Everyone learns differently, so it's hard to recommend learning materials. I'll offer some ideas though:

books (my favorite; I look for conciseness)
formal training classes
(community) college classes
local user groups (attend if topic is pertinent)
online videos/screencasts
podcasts
web tutorials
blogs (hard to get the basics though)
personalized training
mentoring

 

PHP, ASP (and ASP.net) and Cold Fusion are the 3 big server-side technologies. You'll need to learn SQL (not MySQL - that's a program, not a language) if you want to be able to handle databases. MVC? Wordpress? Joomla? Magento? There were millions of websites long before any of them was even thought of.

(Stay away from W3Schools unless you want to learn a lot of outdated and incorrect things. It's good as a reference - it's terrible to learn from.)

HTML? Javascript? Many companies hire separate server programmers and client programmers. Many of us do both, but being very good with one side or the other, and not knowing the other one, is no longer an impediment to getting a job.

 

Hi friend,

I'm not a good web developer but I have knowledge base about something enough to create my own website without any help. So with me:

1. Programing skill: it's the most important to start to become a web developer (PHP and MySQL is first choice)
2. Graphic Design: you must to know at least one tool for graphic and have some knowledge about color, art design,...
3. Tools: Development tools need on your way to web developer is two upper things. With me: Adobe Suite is OK!

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Here's another example of the lousy advice you get on DP:

I don't know anyone who uses ColdFusion and he doesn't even mention Java; the most used language.

He read that on a forum somewhere a year ago when it was only partly true but, like everything else, he's not up to date. Just like he claims W3Schools is.

 

Then you have this guy:

who doesn't know the difference between a developer and a designer and thinks you need expensive crutches like Adobe Suite.

 

well all the reply is very informative and helpful i just want to add one thing if you want to learn web development you can consult w3schools.com. its very resourceful and free also. wish you all the success.

 

I think you should first learn about HTML then PHP will become essey and you will become able to develop a web site.

 

I think you should follow this step after Knowing basics for server Function.
1. HTML
2. CSS
3. JAVA Script
4. PHP/MySQL
5. Expertise in any one CMS

After that you can go for any framework expertise.

 

At first you must know HTML and then CSS afterwards javascript,jquery,Php,Sql,even Dotnet, also helps you

 

Here's the golden list for websites:

HTML 5 / CSS 3
PHP / MySQL
Javascript
AJAX, JSON, JOOMLA, JQUERY

Then for smartphones and tablets learn:
Objective-C 2.0
Java

 

Are you good in maths? if you are then you ca become coder by learning many new things on ur own.

It is not a easy job to become programmer just by reading tutorials.