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Posted by rakan omar
rakan omar
15,066 Points

What are the requirements (programming skills needed) to be able to build any website?

I'm a fairly experienced programmer but i mostly worked on games, phone applications and other areas NOT including web programming. What i want to know is the required programming languages to be able to build any type of website. far as i understand it:

  1. HTML (can already use it)
  2. CSS (can already use it)
  3. JavaScript (can already use it)
  4. a server side programming language such as python (can already use it), php, perl
  5. SQL

first off, are these all the requirements for being able to build any website or are there other other requirements ? (note: this question doesn't apply to extensions of already mentioned languages - ie, since i mentioned javascript im not looking for answers like AJAX)

second, I'm already fluent in python but i have never used it for web development before, are there any python courses on treehouse made especially for its usage as a server side language?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points

I'd amend number 5:

5. SQL and/or NoSQL