Introduction to Web Programming
Spanish version / Versión en Español General Concepts When first facing this new development environment, it's easy to become confused due to the enormous variety of "technologies": HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, PHP, MySQL, ASP.NET, Bootstrap, SQL Server, Ruby on Rails and many more. The answer to this problem is that every web-related technology can be classified in a certain category. All technologies in that category are essentially equivalent, and deciding which one to use is no more than an administrative decision (though, as usual, some technologies are better suited than others for specific problems or scenarios). Once we know which category a technology belongs to, we already understand 60% of all there is to know about it. The remainder can be completed with a good reference for the API and syntax. General structure of a web application Every web app does essentially the same, no matter which technologies it uses: Provide a qu...