Chapter 1
How Web Coding and Development Work
IN THIS CHAPTER
Learning how the web works
Understanding the front-end technologies of HTML and CSS
Understanding the back-end technologies of MySQL and PHP
Figuring out how JavaScript fits into all of this
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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