Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Compare and contrast back-end and front-end web development
• Explain the differences between languages like Python, Java and C

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Picking a Language

When you start reading about web development languages you will quickly see that there are hundreds of them! So how do you know which one to use or better, which one to start learning?

When learning about different languages it is important to distinguish between higher level languages and lower level languages. Since all that computers can understand are 0s and 1s (a language we call binary), we need a way to convert our human readable language to machine code.