How Many Programming Languages?

sn17 · 08-08-2006, 11:21 AM

How many programming languages should an average programmer know? And what are they?

**icepack** · 08-08-2006, 03:32 PM

very much relies on what the programmer wants to do.

i sign up at careerbuilder for my field and area. i look at all the jobs posted that fit what i want, and glance at the requirments.

c++ and java are pretty standard.

sn17 · 08-09-2006, 09:40 AM

What if I want to create a site like this?

chaganlal1 · 08-09-2006, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by icepack

very much relies on what the programmer wants to do.

I think that is completely true if you are into programming applications use C++ or Visual Basic, Visual Basic being for the new programmers.
For Web Programmers it would have to be HTML, and PHP. 70-80% of the sites on the internet are composed of one, if not both of those languages.

Originally Posted by sn17

What if I want to create a site like this?

Dont know quite how you meant that, but to create the forum it uses quite complex PHP.

sn17 · 08-12-2006, 12:23 PM

So, only PHP is required for this?

**WingedPanther** · 08-13-2006, 10:28 AM

I haven't made a forum, but you will generally want something like ASP or PHP, along with a database such as MySQL. You store all the posts and user info in the database, and use PHP to pull information out of the database and handle the formatting.