[Tutor] Creating your first CGI-script

[Rob Andrews]

CGI are a certain type of program that run on the server.

XHTML is essentially the same thing as HTML. It's used to describe the 
markup of web pages.

XML is a descriptive way of handling data. It will look familiar in some 
ways if you learn XHTML (and you find out that there's a reason for this 
as soon as you start learning XHTML).

SQL is a language used to query databases. It's very handy to know. 
Check out mySQL or a similar Open Source database, and you'll be off to 
a good start.

In order to run CGI (or to do almost any kind of "real" web 
programming), you'll need web server software. Apache is common, and the 
price is right.

There are also Servlets, Server Pages, and other web programming 
approaches. Python generally plays well with all of them, especially 
with Jython creating a solid relationship with Java.

Search google.com for "python CGI tutorial", "python web programming", 
etc. in addition to asking here. We're happy to help when we can.

-Rob Andrews
uselesspython.com

Ole Jensen wrote:
> First of all, I have no experince in web programming, but my plans are 
> to get into that sooner rather than later. So if my assumptions below 
> are hillariously wrong feel free to correct me before what I think I 
> know sticks with me :-).


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