I had c and c++ in my 2nd year's CS semester.
what programming languages should i learn after these.should i strengthen my skills in these languages again or should i try learning other prog languages?which ones are useful for web development?
What if i wanted to develop a small website all by my own ,then which languages do i require to learn?
After c/c++ what should I learn?
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Re: After c/c++ what should I learn?
#2Java is the language for a lot of web-based "portal" applications. You might go to a book store in the computer science section and look around for books on Java and web portals. This topic includes related technologies such as XML, and XSLT.
Re: After c/c++ what should I learn?
#3Java is the language for a lot of web-based "portal" applications. You might go to a book store in the computer science section and look around for books on Java and web portals. This topic includes related technologies such as XML, and XSLT.
and how is ruby
Re: After c/c++ what should I learn?
#4If you are looking for a language that will expand your programming horizon try Scala (closer to C/C++), Lisp or Scheme (both very different from C/C++).
Re: After c/c++ what should I learn?
#5Learn language which can be easily extended by c/c++, say python, php or ruby, so you can continue to improve your skills in c/c++ and learn new language at the same time.
Re: After c/c++ what should I learn?
#6Java is the language for a lot of web-based "portal" applications. You might go to a book store in the computer science section and look around for books on Java and web portals. This topic includes related technologies such as XML, and XSLT.
and how is ruby
Ruby is a nice language, its known for not being the fastest language, but its still very nice...its currently my favourite web language.
Or maybe even PHP? The problem with PHP normally is people jump in without any previous programming experience and say they have mastered it in 6 months - when in fact they know barely anything. You obviously have a good programming background and would use it properly.
Re: After c/c++ what should I learn?
#7Learn LISP - read SICP.
Re: After c/c++ what should I learn?
#8I would think more in terms of what you want to do rather than purely thinking about skills. Let your passion lead you. If you don't have a passion then you might be in the wrong program.
I knew exactly what I wanted to do before getting into the CS program at my school and I ended up dropping out to be a freelancer and work on my own projects. Not sure that was a good decision but I just couldn't keep focus on school while other things were calling.
That's just me though. If I were to teach myself "skills" then I would have bored myself silly. I just wanted to build things and the skills were picked up along the way.
If you want to build web applications then you should probably look at Ruby, Python or PHP. Ruby makes me happier than PHP. Python would probably be about the same but I flipped a coin and Ruby won. There are lots of other names being thrown around but as a freelancer the languages I mentioned were a better choice.
Re: After c/c++ what should I learn?
#9for me, python is still the most fun language - and it gets you into webdev via django nicely (used in http://code.google.com/appengine/)
Re: After c/c++ what should I learn?
#10Pick one that's generally associated with web stuff. That's pretty much Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, and PHP these days. Take a look at all of them on the surface level to see what's interesting to you, and just pick one and go.
Given that you already know C and C++, I'd learn Perl, Python, or Ruby, since they're a very natural extension of C and C++ and can be used very easily in problem domains where you wouldn't want to use C or C++. Learning more than one of these may prove useful if you want to hack on a variety of different open source codebases, so whichever one you pick first isn't so important as picking one and having it in your toolbox.