Starting from scratch

[gin]

Right. I'm going to start from the ground up with development. I'm going to learn about web development (HTML, CSS, XML, JS and all that stuff). I was wondering where should I start. I want to have a solid base before I start learning other things. And since these are quite easy I thought this would be a good idea and would also come in quite handy.

Is this a good idea? I want to have a good variety of languages at my disposal both on the web and the desktop.

Cheers.

[chili5]

If your really into making web sites then you have to start with HTML and eventually once your good with HTML, CSS, JS and some server side language, if you want to make dynamic web sites.

Fortunately their are great web sites that can help you learn how to make web pages

w3schools
Web Tutorials

those are probably the only sites, you'll ever need. You could probably just use w3schools but the second one is really good and covers a lot. w3schools covers a lot and has a lot of great examples.

Even the software, to make web sites is free, a web browser and notepad are all you need but I prefer notepad++ because it has options to convert your HTML to valid XHTML and a lot more features that will be helpful to you at some point. A lot of them make your pages work better, easier to read and save you a lot of time.

[gin]

Cheers mate! I'm into both making web applications and desktop applications. What I want to do is start from the ground up and learn each language thoroughly (because at the moment my knowlage of programming is all over the place... I start learning something then just stop ).

I want to be proficient in XHTML, CSS, JS (with AJAX), PHP, (Perl or Python perhaps?) and C++ in years to come. Apart from those links, is there any books (or other tutorials) that could come in handy to start me on my journey?

[chili5]

Ok for the desktop you can use perl and C++

perl can also be used on the web so it's quite useful to learn You could also use C# which is great to learn because you can use it with ASP.NET

Those tutorials that I listed are quite good for the web but theirs quite a few on code call.

Code call tutorials

I have a few books but I haven't looked at them much to tell if their any good. I think you can find great tutorials online to learn from.

C++ tutorial
Perl tutorials

[marwex89]

Make sure you try out JS

Also makes later syntax easier (Java, C++ etc)

[chili5]

Yes you should try JS, it will make learning a few other languages easier but you should learn HTML and CSS first before starting JS.

[marwex89]

HTML ftw!

[Danerd100]

start with the basics (BASIC) lol, seriously though, either vbasic, qbasic, or kbasic (I want to get kbasic popular)

[marwex89]

So why not mention VBScript while we're at it!

[Danerd100]

vbscript isn't as good because it doesn't allow easy gui development, unless u have a good editor (which i cant seem to find)