Where can I learn to create my own programs,webpages, and other software.?

Question

Where can I learn to create my own programs,webpages, and other software.?

Answer 1

VB, then C++ or Java, then C, etc. or take computer science major in college

Answer 2

well I'm not sure about the programming part but I'm learning HTML web design from this web site

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

it has programming tutorials on it as well like PHP but I haven't started on them yet and I think you need to download a program for PHP, like Python. free I think. as for the web page design the relevant parts are the HTML and XHTML and CSS ones. make sure you do them IN ORDER otherwise you'll just be confused, trust me I know from experience. as for the program you need well I'm on mac and I use TextEdit, comes default on all macs. as for windows I don't know a lot about them but I've heard NotePad is the most popular. if it hasn't come default than it's probably a free download. I don't know about Note Pad but in TextEdit you first have to make the document plain text and you have to save your file with a .html extension NOT a .txt extension. if you haven't made it plain text than it will be .rtf . in TextEdit to make the file plain text and with a .html extension first open a new document and go Format, make plain text then save it as myfirstwebpage.html . the website doesn't tell you how to do this I don't think.

and don't just use this one resource I suggest going to the library and getting some books from there. If you don't understand something from one source or something isn't working then go find out from somewhere else. 'cos there will always be new stuff to learn and no one source has it all.

Answer 3

For create your web page or web site I suggest you webdesigningcompany.net site. Try to use this site for your web application.

Answer 4

You sound like you want to customize WinXP, not program for it. Why don't you try customizing a real POSIX system like Linux, Mac OS X or Solaris or something? You could take that much further, and it's easier.



As for the website design thing: if you want to do it the nitty gritty way without simple designer software, look up tutorials on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and you're ready to start. If you want to be even snazzier, try XML with XSL stylesheets; it's more powerful and modern! Use a proper text editor (not NotePad), in my experience JEdit is nice and easy for just about everything, but there is special software (much of it free) just for HTML as well. Definitely the site you want to look at for tutorials is:

www.w3schools.com

They are the authority! OK, that's all 'client-side' stuff, probably what you should get comfortable with first. It is all displayed by your browser. 'Server-side' applications are run by your server; things like Google's search engine or just the software that handles Facebook are examples of server-side programs. You can write them in most general purpose programming languages; favourites are Java, Perl, Python, PHP among others. I recommend Python and PHP as easier. Don't get confused though. Learn client-side first.

All of the software I have mentioned can be downloaded for free (except Mac OS X, and the example server programs).