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What should I learn first if I want to build a web application? I just had an excellent idea that I want to work on for a few years myself. I don’t have any experience programming besides doing HTML and some bits of CSS. I’m a novice in using the command line (Terminal) in Linux but I have been trying to improve myself on that part.
You’ll have to learn a bit about a language for web application design.
The simplest thing would be the LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, PHP, and MySQL.
If you’re a Windows junkie you’ll probably want .NET.
Or you could write the back end in Java.
The point is that HTML and CSS are vital for the client, but now you’ll have to be taking care of the back end as well.
Here’s a list of things you’ll want to know more about:
JavaScript, jQuery, HTTP, networking, relational databases, and SQL.
Start with those.