Which Programming Language to Learn – Web Programming — (Article Review #7)

Article Title: Which Programming Language to Learn – Web Programming

Article Author:
James Bruce

Article Publication Date:
November 9th, 2011

Url: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/programming-language-learn-web-programming/

Article Summary:
PHP - Serves more of a user purpose (Facebook,Wikipedia and Word Press)
MySQL - Database - Presents Organized Information for the user
Javascript / Jquery - Responds to user actions on a web page.

The best to start with is PHP/MySQL for web programming because its useful for real world experience.

Relevance to Class:
How different types of web programming can influence the structure of data presented to the users.

Key Quote:
"PHP is mainly used in conjunction with MySQL to pull information from a database,
manipulate it and present it to the user."