Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start?

Re:Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start? by tel on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @10:49AM (#123917)

Write a toy web server. It'll get you up to par with how the requests actually happen which is a good base for understanding CGI and the more complex systems.

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Re:Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start? by bprater on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @04:35PM (#124177)

He is just figuring out HTML. You are joking right?

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Re:Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start? by tel on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @07:00PM (#124315)

Of course not.

It's practically requisite to understanding Rails or Django and is not so hard a project that you can't start to tackle it quickly (by reading any of the hundreds of simple web server tutorials online)

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Re:Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start? by Zak on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @07:43PM (#124364)

Reading through the source for a simple http server might be a good first step. srv.arc (the server that runs this site) is only 360 lines and is pretty readable without a deep understanding of Arc or Lisp.

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Re:Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start? by mkumm on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @07:49PM (#125127)

I actually agree. I have been programming for the web for about 8 years now and looking back, I wish that the web server had not been such a mystery - it would have been helpful.

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