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Terminology E Commerce 

Technologies used in software development / web development

Front-end:

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) – Used in web development to define web page structure and to add interactions to text, pictures and others. 

HTML file must contain extension such as *.htm or *.html. Files in this format must enclose:             

·       DOCTYPE,
·       HTML tag,
·       HEAD tag,
·    BODY tag,
·    Attributes in head tag which defines language, ISO standards, title, description, etc.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) – Second most important language in front-end development. CSS files (stylesheets) are used further with HTML. Stylesheets are responsible for visual part, design of website. Used with HTML can define how text, fonts, background, pictures and almost everything else look on website.

JavaScript – Third most important and common technology in web development. JS is able to make website look even prettier and useful with cookies, animations, pop-up windows, validation of forms and many more. 

This powerful programming language have a lot of frameworks and libraries for both frontend and backend.


JQuery – Lightweight and simple JavaScript library. JQuery have similar functionality to JS, however it is having some limitations.

Back-End:

Python – High Level general purpose programming language with many available libraries. Most important feature of this language is it's simplicity. Syntax is very clear and simple to understand even for beginners. Python is widely used on server side of website. Could be responsible for:
·         Connection with databases,
·         logging and registering new users,
·         sophisticated calculations, algorithms,
·         payment operations,
·         etc.
 Functionality of python can increase when used with plenty of different API’s.

Ruby – Object Oriented, general purpose backend programming language. Ruby is similar to python on many levels and both of languages can be used to similar things. 

Ruby on Rails is a Ruby framework, which is very popular and commonly used in software development.


Comments

  1. Carrie Mansfield23 January 2018 at 10:32

    Please put your sources for these definitions - this can just be a copy of the website address to show from where you got the information. If all from the same location, then this can be put at the end of your post.

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  2. Unknown23 January 2018 at 10:46

    Source: Brain

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