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What should I learn first? (For web programming)

Should I learn PHP or JQuery.I have some knowledge in HTML CSS and JavaScript.

Solution

  • Modern web development is now actually divided in to two major parts

    1. Frontend (JavaScript and related things)

    2. Backend (PHP, NodeJS or others)

    Now if you are more interested in designing the User Interface and what shows on the screen, then go forward to HTML and then JavaScipt and then JQuery (which is an opensource library in JavaScript) and then CSS. However if you are interested in Backend (means server side coding, databases and business logics etc) then you should target PHP or any other suitable server side language.

    Bonus: If you are interested in starting things quickly, I would recommend that start learning JavaScript first, because there is a server side technology named NodeJS (which does almost all the work PHP does) and it uses JavaScript. So in that case, you only will have to learn JavaScript and CSS.