Actually I started learning javascript in early 2008. I thought web technology and javascript coding and HTML DOM, CSS et al were trivial and I could easily master as after all that was application coding.
And I have always been a systems and networking programmer working on C, perl and UNIX. But how wrong I was? Javascript is no joke. It is an amazing programming language. Even two days ago I had a very serious programming challenge as I had to synchronously execute a loop and I had to work really hard to tackle it. Javascript is like a scripting language, it is object oriented and it is incredibly powerful. It is not some ordinary thing. It takes a lot of concerted effort and long focus to master web 2.0 programming. And Ajax is a cool way to communicate with the server backend and populate your web pages with dynamically generated CGI output. With HTML5, canvas , video and audio and drawing facilities things are becoming even more interesting. But javascript is not going away. jQuery is here to stay. And you cannot do much with javascript without knowing jQuery, css and html. A lot of background knowledge, experience and hard work is needed to deliver a web application of value. PHP is being used by a lot of web programmers. I never use. I use perl instead and get the same results. If you look at the typical web application that I create it is some 4000 lines of javascript code and 4000 lines of perl CGI. Along with that you also have to execute certain commands as root. So you will have CGI talking to a perl daemon over a UNIX local socket. A web based networking or multimedia project has many parts and the most interesting parts are in the javascript side. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
