Very interested in AJAX

[Blaze]

I'm very interested in learning AJAX but I'm not sure where you start. Should I learn JavaScript and CSS very well first or what? I've seen a couple of books on amazon.com and almost bought them a time or too. Is this the best method for learning AJAX? Or should I learn JavaScript first? I'm not entirely sure what AJAX is though, I suppose I should learn that before learning anything else, lol.

[Jimbo]

you wont need to know much CSS at all to get this working, Javascript would be the best thing to learn, the only other thing you will need is knowledge of XML which is dead easy to pick up and understand.

Loads of tutorials on the net, try this as a starter -> http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/default.asp

[Blaze]

Thanks, nice tutorial. Javascript doesn't seem that hard to learn.

[xtraze]

CSS is very easy and there are a lot of e-books for them in the internet. Once you got hold of it, It would come really easy. And Java scripts are easy and at the same time very hard for beginners, (including myself). So, all we have to do is to find many examples to learn from and to read many books and do tutorials.

[monkey_instinct]

For AJAX, first learn HTML (XHTML), then a little bit of CSS (not necessary but helpful) and then Javascript. Probably a good understanding of XML is and what is for will be helpful too.

[palh0ta]

i think that you need to know the basics of ajax but i'm wonder if you should learn the really AJAX. I think that's is a hard way of development and i advice you to use some framework out there.

i recomment the use of prototype that you can find at :
Prototype JavaScript framework: Easy Ajax and DOM manipulation for dynamic web applications

You have a lot of tutorials right there.

this is my opinion!

[monkey_instinct]

What about Dojo? I've heard is a good web framework (for Javascript).

[wilk3sy]

wat exactly is this dojo?? i still havent got round to learnin java or ajax... still busy with uni work atm, hopefully in the summer... just tryin 2 get my head round things i need to learn...

thanks

[TkTech]

Dojo, Ext, YUI, ect, are all frameworks you can use to really speed up the creation of interactive, feature rich ajax applications.

[wilk3sy]

ahh rite! sounds a little too complicated for me atm then... will jus hav to wait until ive lernt a lil more

thanks tho