I want to learn a language!

Maccy

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I'd like to start learning how to properly code/script in a language. I'm not sure which language would be best, I know fairly basic HTML but have used Dreamweaver to create my (very basic) website and I see a lot of CSS options in there.

Can anyone recommend a good one to start with? And any good websites for tutorials or even books that would help?
 
That completely depends on what your goal is with this.

If you just want to build websites, I'd learn html/css/js(jquery) first. Then if you want to go further, pick up a backend language such as php or .net(c#)
 
As said above, it really does depend what your aiming to achieve once you have learnt the language. Here are a few examples of the different languages for different platforms;

## Web Languages ##
HTML/CSS (Display Language)
Javascript (Frontend language)
PHP (Backend Language)

Windows Language (also Windows 7 phone): c#
Mac Language (also iPhone): Objective c
Multi-platform Language (also Android): Java

General Use Language: C++

When i started teaching myself i started with VB.NET, and it's alright to start off with but as soon as I moved over to c# i never looked back at VB. c# is very easy to use to flesh out quick prototypes and to learn the basic essentials of high level programming.

Remember, dont look at things overall, always try to break them down piece by piece and you will understand how things work a lot easier.
 
HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP.

Once you got a grip on HTML CSS, I would personally give PHP a go followed by javascript.
 
In that case, XHTML, CSS, JS/JQuery.

Are you looking to make a career out of this? If so you will also need to know a server-side language, so either PHP or C#.
 
No, definitely not a career out of this!

I've opted to go for Javascript, it seems fairly logical to begin with and can be incorporated into HTML. I'd like to learn PHP afterwards I think or CSS.
 
Learning JS before CSS (or even getting more than what you admit is a basic knowledge of html)? That's kind of like learning how to drive before you know how to start the car.

Call me old fashioned but if you want to learn how to build webpages, you should probably learn the basics of building a webpage before you move on to JS or PHP.
 
I knew more about PHP than I did with HTML/CSS/Javascript when I started out. :p

If you just to make a few static pages that look nice then you'll only need to learn HTML, CSS and Javascript. More advanced stuff such as dynamic pages, database, etc then PHP/ASPX and SQL and maybe some of the others such as Perl/Python.
 
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