dog lover
03-12-2007, 07:00 AM
Hello all,
I am not a programmer yet but have become interested in website development. I was forced to go on a medical retirement a couple of years ago and I need to get involved with something productive again, mainly for my sanity and who knows if I become successful enough perhaps I might be able to supplement my meager income. I had attempted to learn programming many years ago but at that time was not very successful. To give you an idea how long ago that was the only two languages offered for study at the university I was attending was fortran IV and cobol. The pc had not yet been invented and I do not even think that C was available yet.
The reason for my post here is I need your advice, I hope that some of you will be kind enough to steer me in the correct direction as to what I will need to learn in order to become successful at website development. I am in the process of studying html and will move on to xml, what other languages should I concentrate on? Are there any development environments that I should be considering? I am hoping that there will be sufficient open source tools available as I am on a very tight budget. I am sure that there are a lot of things that will keep me busy that will not cause me to take out a second mortgage on my home to acquire, I just do not really know where to begin. Do you have any recommendations that will point me in the proper direction? Any books, software etc that I should be obtaining? I am also interested in developing the skills necessary for the back end tasks, for example, properly integrating a data base with a website.
I would not consider myself an expert computer user at this time but feel that I am more than above average in my skills, I build my own systems and have been running a multi boot environment between a couple of different flavors of Linux along with Windows XP. I am almost finished with a successful stage 1 install of Gentoo Linux. At this point in time Linux has become my normal OS with Windows still hanging out solely for the games.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to read my lengthy post and for any assistance that you might be able to give.
Sincerely
Robert,
I am not a programmer yet but have become interested in website development. I was forced to go on a medical retirement a couple of years ago and I need to get involved with something productive again, mainly for my sanity and who knows if I become successful enough perhaps I might be able to supplement my meager income. I had attempted to learn programming many years ago but at that time was not very successful. To give you an idea how long ago that was the only two languages offered for study at the university I was attending was fortran IV and cobol. The pc had not yet been invented and I do not even think that C was available yet.
The reason for my post here is I need your advice, I hope that some of you will be kind enough to steer me in the correct direction as to what I will need to learn in order to become successful at website development. I am in the process of studying html and will move on to xml, what other languages should I concentrate on? Are there any development environments that I should be considering? I am hoping that there will be sufficient open source tools available as I am on a very tight budget. I am sure that there are a lot of things that will keep me busy that will not cause me to take out a second mortgage on my home to acquire, I just do not really know where to begin. Do you have any recommendations that will point me in the proper direction? Any books, software etc that I should be obtaining? I am also interested in developing the skills necessary for the back end tasks, for example, properly integrating a data base with a website.
I would not consider myself an expert computer user at this time but feel that I am more than above average in my skills, I build my own systems and have been running a multi boot environment between a couple of different flavors of Linux along with Windows XP. I am almost finished with a successful stage 1 install of Gentoo Linux. At this point in time Linux has become my normal OS with Windows still hanging out solely for the games.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to read my lengthy post and for any assistance that you might be able to give.
Sincerely
Robert,