I am a college graduate and looking for learning web development and programming. Can someone please advice me what are the best languages to start with and good for getting a software job in current situations. I hope
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I'd recommend visiting http://www.w3schools.com/

A great tool to get started and allows for in-browser experimenting without the need of any software.

you should start . HTML . CSS . JavaScript . ASP.Net(Optional). MySql . XHTML(Recommended) . As it is the basic and fundamental languages used in Web Development.

EDIT : I forgot to put PHP . it is also a recommended language you should know.

That really depends on what kind of position you are looking for you.
Basically there is a major division in web development into two categories: front-end and back-end. Ofcourse a good developer should be proficient in both, but the one that you pick is most likely gonna determine your future profession.

Front-end
In my opinion is easier for beginners (if you don't have any programming background)
The front-end is responsible for the client side of the website (roughly speaking it is whats happening inside the browser, the way the website looks, etc.)
The languages for front-end are:
HTML - website layout and structure
CSS - the way it looks (visual design)
JAVASCRIPT - browser scripting (mostly things that are not responsible for whats happening on the server [leaving ajax alone for now])

Back-end
Is responsible for whats happening on the server. Like data manipulation, returning it to the client (browser), etc. There are many languages that can be used for back-end: PHP, C#, JAVA, PYTHON, etc. Probably the most beginner-friendly is PHP.

To give you a rough example:
We have a website that is visited by the user, on that website we have a form with a couple of fields (HTML)
This form has a yellow background and orange border (CSS)
When the user enters data into fields it validates the input on the fly, for example if he enters letters into the phone number field the form will immediately show an error message saying that it needs to be corrected (JAVASCRIPT)
When all the data is entered the user submits the form and it goes to the server, there it is validated again and saved in the database (PHP or any other server-side language)
Something like that.

Also I would like to add that HTML and CSS are not programming languages, HTML is a markup language and CSS is a stylesheet.

And as it was already said probably one of the best starting points would be the w3schools website, they have a lot of great tutorials and examples there.
Good luck!

Originally Posted by anyareal

I think you should start with C programming language since its the predecessor of most programming languages.

It is also in some sence the hardest language to master, since you pretty much have no limitations and can screw up badly if you don't know what you're doing. And perhaps not the best choice for developing a website with, unless you need something really optimized and, again, know what you're doing.

Originally Posted by lizciz

It is also in some sence the hardest language to master, since you pretty much have no limitations and can screw up badly if you don't know what you're doing. And perhaps not the best choice for developing a website with, unless you need something really optimized and, again, know what you're doing.

Change "can screw up" to "will screw up" and I'll agree.