jason grey

One of the most important concepts you can learn is Object Oriented programming. Once OOP is mastered, learning any object style language becomes much simpler. Common OOP languages used on the web: Java, C#, as well as scripting languages such as JavaScript, and ActionScript.

Check out this wikipedia article for a general overview of OOP and many links out to OOP theory, and even a few links about what’s BAD about OOP.

Google’s got another great beta out there - Google Base. It’s a place for you to post your own content. They take it a step further by allowing you to define (or use predefined) content types. Each content type has a set of attributes. Then, custom search interfaces are provided against the content types, for example, see recipes. Doesn’t seem like there’s an API out there yet, so I think this is of limited use for now.