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Posted by Ron Gootman
Ron Gootman
24,409 Points

What course are suggested to take to create a site like ratemyprofessor.com?

Greetings to all the treehouse rockstars!

I got an idea to create a site similar in function to ratemyprofessor.com - but obviously for my niche.

I've been around treehouse for almost a month a feel I got the basic html/css foundations to start my attempt in this site creation.

Wondering what are some additional courses (back-end programming course) I should start learning on treehouse in order to hopefully be able to create such a review platform like ratemyprofessor has.

Anyone not familiar with ratemyprofessor.com?

Appreciate any suggestions :)

1 Answer

Adam Duffield
Adam Duffield
30,494 Points
Adam Duffield
Adam Duffield
30,494 Points

From my personal experience I would highly recommend you study through all the courses in the JavaScript section, the site ratemyprofessor.com uses it heavily from what I can see. :)

If you don't know already JavaScript is what makes sites interactive dependent on where you click such as the site you mentioned.

Adam

Ron Gootman
Ron Gootman
24,409 Points

Thanks for replying Adam!

I am starting right now the "entry to programming course" and gonna go further with JavaScript.

However for the content/data management (accumulated from the eventual reviews) I should probably get on the PHP courses as well right?

  • apologize if I get this entirely wrong, still a total beginner...

Best,

Adam Duffield
Adam Duffield
30,494 Points

Yeah you will need a developer language for that PHP is one of the easiest I believe but Ruby seems to have a lot more content on this site to learn from.

Worry about your front end and making things look pretty first with your html,css, javascript & jquery then move onto the fun stuff with developing ;)