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Hey...so how hard is it to learn code to write website functionality?

I'm looking to write polling an analysis functionality into a website. I know that's light in detail however I don't know which code works best for what functionality purposes.

Any advice on learning code and which codes are best for what types of functionality is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

What do you know already?
What have you tried?

By polling you mean do you mean create a poll similar how can create a poll on here?

Node.js is the most popular lately, all the cool kids are using it. Also PHP should work just fine for this, you can store the results in database and visually chart the results with amcharts, highcharts etc

If you have a background in IT, you should be able to pick it up fairly easily with a book or an online course. Expect to spend a couple hous picking up the basics and refreshing those lessons you learned in "intro to computer programming" classes you may have had several years ago. The good news is that online training material is widely available and super cheap, there are some great classes over at Pluralsight and CBTNuggets. Pluralsight runs about $30 for a month of training.  What I find most people do is pick up a web development book and then an online class too.

http://www.pluralsight.com/tag/developer?pageSize=48&sort=popular

There are "bootstrap" templates that most of the popular languages use, that already are semi developed, in which you can pretty much just start coding away. Most people get trapped in fining a place to run the code you write, there are some low cost places to run your own code/site like webfaction, ipage, or digital ocean.

For myself, I code in C#, mostly because I learned how to code in C and visual basic, so C# works well for me. You should find a language that you are comfortable in, pretty much any web language will do what you are looking to do. Depending on how complex you are looking to make your program and depending on your background and knowledge, you could probably knock something out in a day or two.  If your background is not in MIS/IT, it might take you a week or so to pick it up.

Also worth noting that Microsoft offers free versions of Visual Studio that you can use to learn on, and they have a ton of tutorials and code resources too. Total shit bag company, but hey. If you've never used an IDE before, VS is a good one to start with.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/tools.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/tools.aspx)

Hey, he or she is asking about website development and not application development.  Try PHP, since most website are made out of PHP.

FWIW, I worked at a company for two years making websites with C#, and then three years making websites with Java. :)

And what do you suggest for a total coding illitterate like me to get started?
What do you think it's better for someone who wants to have a first understanding of how coding works?

Never much used PHP, so cannot comment on that.

C# and Java are similar in style and function, essentially just different flavors of curly-bracket-semicolon OOP. I'd recommend C# with Visual Studio Web Express for absolute beginners just because there's a bit more hand-holding.

If you first want an understanding of how coding works, I'd recommend you open Notepad, a web browser, and jquery.org  :D

For the total illitterate newb, I suggest you check out my Building Bitcoin Websites tutorials.  I go step by step and explain each thing I do. I'm not a master coder by any means but I created these since none existed.  When I started with bitcion websites I wished there was some instruction but I couldn't find any so I created these.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhWIQKZKupCYEPtkR8sPLRJ5VDu8NepcV

http://www.developphp.com/