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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Paul McFedries
January 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
848 pages
18h 2m
English
For Dummies
Content preview from Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 1

How Web Coding and Development Work

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Learning how the web works

Bullet Understanding the front-end technologies of HTML and CSS

Bullet Understanding the back-end technologies of MySQL and PHP

Bullet Figuring out how JavaScript fits into all of this

Bullet Learning about dynamic web pages, web apps, and mobile web apps

More than mere consumers of technology, we are makers, adapting technology to our needs and integrating it into our lives.

— DALE DOUGHERTY

The 1950s were a hobbyist’s paradise with magazines such as Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Science showing the do-it-yourselfer how to build a go-kart for the kids and how to soup up a lawnmower with an actual motor! Seventy years later, we’re now firmly entrenched in the age of do-it-yourself tech, where folks indulge their inner geek to engage in various forms of digital tinkering and hacking. The personification of this high-tech hobbyist renaissance is the maker, a modern artisan who lives to create things rather than merely ...

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