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Items tagged programming, webdevelopment in 2011

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Does one still need to learn C/C++ if one just wants to build web applications?

No—you don’t need any knowledge of C or C++ to get started building web apps—I know plenty of extremely smart and talented web developers who have never written a line of production C in their while careers.

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9:42 am / 24th December 2011 / programming, webdevelopment, quora

Can someone improve their knowledge of programming in Ruby or PHP by using a framework like Rails or Zend, or does the framework just do a lot of the work for you without giving you an opportunity to learn from it?

Read the source, luke.

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1:04 pm / 4th December 2011 / php, programming, rails, webdevelopment, quora

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