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October 24, 2009, 08:11:00 PM
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Hello,
I'm new at this forum board and I need some help deciding what to learn at this point. The first programming(or better yet scripting) language I started out was Python. I studied it for about 5 months or so when I decided to go on a different road. Then I started learning X(HTML) and CSS afterwards I moved on to PHP and MySQL. I still have things to learn about PHP(we always learn new things) but I think I know enough PHP to move on learning a new language. My main goal is to learn JAVA. I did a bit of search and I seen that JAVA is becoming more popular and used these days, even in my country. I also seen that some of jobs that ask for PHP knowledge also ask you to know JS.. I'm a bit confused at this point if I should spend the time learning javascript first and then move to JAVA or just skip javascript and start with JAVA directly. What do you guys suggest ? I think I have a fairly good knowledge about OO programming also to be starting with java.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Cheers.
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Code Guru Gender:  Posts: 1399 Topics: 85
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October 26, 2009, 04:48:39 AM
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Java and Javascript are different. I would just learn Java
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July 15, 2010, 11:06:49 PM
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All you need to do to install Eclipse, as I recall, is unzip it into whatever directory you choose and right click on the executable, go to the send to. . . menu, and select Desktop (create shortcut) to have a link right on your desktop.
Alternatively to Eclipse and NetBeans, you can use Programmer's Notepad 2 to write the programs, but as I recall it doesn't have a debugger that you can test the programs with. If you'd like to take a look at that program, it's available here, and has the syntactic and grammatical rules for a lot of different languages and metalanguages (C, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, CSS. . . ):
« Last Edit: July 10, 2011, 10:14:26 PM by Admin »
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New Poster Posts: 3 Topics: 1
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August 12, 2010, 02:01:13 PM
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As polas said, JavaScript and Java are two different things. JavaScript is mainly used in websites in conjunction with (X)HTML, while Java is used to make complete programs that can run outside of a web page.
With that said, since you said you have some understanding of OOP, I would recommend you start with Java. Although I learned Java in a classroom setting, sites like javabeginner. com would be useful.
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August 12, 2010, 09:29:41 PM
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JavaScript is an client side programming language and Java is server side programming. The main use of JavaScript is for the form validations and functions where we use AJAX. As Java is server side programming, we can use it to create websites/applications that can communicate to the server. Normally with database that resides on the server. We can offcourse create dynamic websites with Java.
I would suggest, if you see there is a scope for Java in your city-country, then go for it, its great thing to learn it. Other wise you can opt for other programming languages.
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