Thank for the helpful information, I appreciate your assistance.
On May 1, 12:12�pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> � �One of the nice features of the OpenSocial is that to get started, all
> you really need is some understanding of HTML and JavaScript. �There's a lot
> of references available on the web for these (just use your favorite search
> engine, you'll find tons). �You'll need to use a little bit of XML, but most
> of it you can just copy from examples.
>
> � �With a little bit of understanding how HTML and JavaScript work, you
> should be able to make a simple non-opensocial gadget. �The gadget
> developer's guide [1] is a good reference for this, and contains an
> interactive editor where you can type code and preview it directly in the
> reference. �To make an OpenSocial application, you can check out the
> OpenSocial tutorial [2] which guides you through adding social features.
>
> � These resources should be enough to get you a simple OpenSocial
> application. �Of course, more sophisticated applications will need to use a
> server and some kind of server-side programming language, plus a database.
> For these cases, most people use a SQL database and a scripting language
> like PHP, Java, Ruby, .NET, or Python, depending on preference and the
> programming languages available on the server they use. �We currently have
> an article detailing how to use our new App Engine product to create a
> server-side OpenSocial application using Python, but there are certainly a
> lot of other choices that you may use.
>
> � C++ and C aren't that common for server-side scripting. �If you're looking
> for a language to use for server-side scripts, PHP, Ruby or Python is
> probably the easiest to get started with, due to the availability of cheap
> or free hosting.
>
> [1]http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/devguide.html
> [2]http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/tutorial/tutorial-0.7...
> [3]http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/appengine.html
>
> Hope this helps,
> ~Arne
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Rebizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello, could an experienced programmer please give me good advice to
> > help me get started in the right direction. I have no experience or
> > education in programming, I would like to learn application
> > development on my own. It seems developers need working knowledge with
> > at least SQL, HTML, XML & JAVA Script.
> > This may be a dumb question, but as I said I have no experience with
> > programming. Do I need to, or should I learn a high level language
> > such as C++? If I do need to learn C++ is it best or necessary to
> > learn C first?
>
> > Should I learn Java script & XML separately or study Ajax which I
> > believe is both together?
>
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated very much.
>
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