As A Beginner, Should I learn Javascript or PHP first?

Which should I learn first? Why?

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Javascript is frontend while PHP is backend. Which should I learn first?

- Which is easier to install and start?
- Which language is easier to learn? More forgiving?
- Which is more powerful, meaning you get to do interesting projects instead of just theory

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I decided tot list a few of the most frequent questions I get in my software developer startup and answer them in the following videos.

What is PHP and how does it works?

What is PHP used for in Web Development?

Back End Development tutorial for beginners!

How to become a great Tech Startups 2021?

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[DevlogBill]

Hi Lionel, learned the fundamentals with Python for Data Science. But switched to JavaScript for web development. I've been study and making small projects with JavaScript now 7 months. But JavaScript has been over whelming ever since I got into learning about the DOM and even very much so overwhelming when learning about JSX for React. Recently I stopped learning JavaScript and began to learn Php after watching your video. I had no idea that Php was so much easier to pick up than JavaScript?
My question to you is this. I downloaded MAMP and I am having a very hard time understanding in how to integrate my CSS, HTML and JavaScript (The Client Side) alongside my Php code? Basically, I am having a hard time rapping my head around how to have the Php interact with the HTML, CSS and JavaScript, how does this all work together? Thanks for the video and your advice if it wasn't for you, I would have never given Php a try and I am really enjoying the language more so than JavaScript.

[aashishgajangi]

Thank you for the information 😅 started learning php

[jazzyniko]

I don't get it!
First of all no installation needed to run JavaScript apart from the live server plugin on vscode.
Secondly you don't have to define variables in JavaScript since it's dynamically typed same as PHP the interpreter does it.
I started learning JavaScript and then jumped into PHP to find out they have lots of things in common.
Switching from one to the other helps me understand both better.
I still don't know which one is easier but I'm learning both so i guess that's what is important.
What I like about PHP is the amount of built-in functions it has.
I don't know man in JS you need to know HTML & CSS but on the other hand in PHP you need also HTML and to do something cool you need to know about databases as well.
For me the syntax of a language doesn't matter much although I prefer "C like languages"
Understanding a particular language as a whole, its quirks and programming logic is what's hard to grasp and implement.

[snkehead-]

ive been watching ur vids for the past 2 hours
when i was 12 (2005) i learned to code in php(after learning html and a bit of css) . i believe it was php ver4 and i did some coding in v5 aswell.
i was part of the development team of an open source forum software (open source) just for fun..
as stupid as i was, around 2008 i got bored and drifted away from coding in general
right now im not doing so good and since ive always had a passion for tech and coding(im a cs grad), im gonna reboot my webdev skills
im planning on relearning and then working as a fullstack dev on upwork/freelancer or sth
im currently learning vanilla JS, the plan is to finish that and move on to react or vue
my question is
since im pretty sure i'll be learning php 8 and laravel after learning vue or react
shall i go with vue or react before moving over to the backend part (php) ?
im leaning towards vue as i read that it pairs better with php on the backend
but in the future im planning on learning nodejs aswell to code async web apps so then react would do well with that(mern)
should i just learn vue now and work with php/vue or can i learn react and pair it with php and later with nodejs ?

btw nice stone cold catchphrase . you seem like a cool dude and pretty down to earth for a TechLead (if u know what i mean) =P

[Nerdy_Aomeba]

Haven’t tried PHP yet I’ll make that my second language. But what you said about JS I agreed. So far a lot that I learned I can’t use it yet for real world scenarios. It’s easy to mess up too.

[KLuqman]

I sincerely thank you. This was very informative.

[KomentarSaya]

why i came here, typing "php or javascript first ?"

AI generated by google

[badral-balushi]

much appreciated for puting the word out there, honestly I heard that PHP was the thing back in the days when it was new, i guess its still the thing now its just the new things get more attention but PHP is the better one.
I am starting now, so my plan is HTML, CSS and JavaScript (thanks to you after JS I plan to do PHP rather than keeping it aside as a nice thing to have) then Python and Java.
Basically I want to be a programmer not just a web developer, so to learn coding, is good to start from HTML and CSS then work all the way to app development and data science stuff.

[pedrobritto]

Hi, Lionel. I´m studing analysis and systems development in Brazil and my college only teaches Java and C#, also for Web. I try to convince my teachers about PHP being better for Web and more realible and cheap to host. They say that PHP is not being used currently for relevants projects or starups, but mainly for code maintenance, because Web still has almost 80% PHP. Is it truth? Can you name some relevants startups or projects done two years earlier? I really like PHP, but it seems hard do paddle against the university stream. Sorry for my english. Regards from Brazil.

[skavihekkora]

As a beginner you should learn python, because you can do everything with it, unlike mostly web bound and dedicated php and js. Unless you know already you want to be mainly dealing with web dev.

[zuri]

Thanks Lionel. PHP still dominates the web! I also love JS

[HaifengZhu-pnuq]

Personally I think JavaScript is a lot more difficult than PHP

[genechristiansomoza]

Need to learn both because they serve different purpose.

[soyalvdev]

Learning PHP with a tech lead. Can't believe it!

[rebelsoul]

In the past I was trying to learn PHP and I did some vanilla PHP. The biggest problem I had I couldn't find a good PHP tutorial, so I only scratched the surface of php programming.
Now I'm trying to learn JavaScript. I found a great course on JavaScript and the guy have a phyton and Django course as well. I know that php is better for web development. Would you recommend to stick with python, learn well programming or would you recommend some good course on PHP from beginner to advance level?

[TheKaunter]

Start to learn Java or C++ these are languages

[knowledgeable]

You are not objective Javascript has more use cases than PHP.