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I am currently working in the 3D modeling industry and am very interested in web development. I have some actionscript experience and plan to learn more web scripting languages(xhtml, javascript, css, xml ,php, mySQL). At my job I have the opportunity to learn C++ or Java as a high level programming language. My question is which language would be best to learn? ...for web related development?
I really appreciate any advice at this point
Thanks
chazzy
08-24-2008, 09:07 PM
the market's pretty much nonexistent for the C++ web development. there's a lot to learn in java.
kurent
08-25-2008, 03:49 AM
Java!! ;)
Thanks CHazzy and Kurent, for the info and advice. In my research I am curious though... What are some type of projects that Java can be used for on the web?
Also I downloaded apache and was reading the installation documentation and it stated that it was created with c++ .... is this how c++ is used in web development? ...or would this be more like (web) software development?
thanks again
chazzy
08-25-2008, 10:10 PM
c++ as web apps are typically handled as full on servers. they would handle the pure http request as it comes in, listen on ports, etc. i don't think apache has a c++ module, but it does generally run with perl, php, python, ruby, etc. any language can be used for any project.
Khalid Ali
08-26-2008, 09:40 AM
I think what might meant is that apache is written using c++, years ago c was used in cgi scripts but almost none existence now with the advent of many high level, easy to use programming languages, such as Java, ASP and of course php etc.
Apache is a http web server, it wont work with java or ASP, for Java you need Tomcat or any other server that implements Java servlet specifications.
For ASP you need windows IIS.
Java became stronger in its web application presence because you can actually use the whole java programming language in creating a web application which makes your app (potentially) a very powerful app.
Where as ASP was actually a subset of VB (not the case any more with MS coming out with C# and .Net framework)
I hope this helps