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What web programming language should I learn?

April 26, 2017Computers design internet learn Programming programming language web

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What web programming language should I learn?

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There are certainly a lot of options to choose from and it really depends on how much time you are willing to devote to it. Server page development (or as you stated “web programming language”) aka: common gateway interface ranges in complexity and cost depending on what exactly you are wanting to do. It looks as though you are wanting to do business computing, which means you will probably want a database. That is a whole other question. That said, the most popular of these languages include Microsoft’s ASP.NET, Java or JSP, Php and ColdFusion to name a few. If you are new to programming, I would encourage you not to use JSP or ASP.NET because the entry level is much higher than that of PHP or CF. Before you can develop in any of these languages, you will need to install a web server on your local machine. ASP.NET requires IIS, JSP requires a servlet container like Tomcat and PHP and ColdFusion can run on a variety of web servers. ColdFusion comes with a self contained web server for