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What are the Best Programming Languages if you DON’T have a Degree?

June 10, 2018
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Without a degree, your best chances of getting work is with a small business. Over 80% of small businesses use PHP to power their websites. So that makes PHP the #1 choice for those with no degrees.

WordPress is also widely used by small business, and WordPress is created with PHP, some JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. Together, these coding languages are part of what is called the web stack. Learn the web stack and you will open up MANY job opportunities.

PHP is old and sucks, no?

LOL! No! Old PHP from the 1990’s wasn’t very good, but much has changed since PHP4. Today PHP is at version 7 and it has all the ability and security as any of the other mainstream languages including:

  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • C#
  • Ruby

So don’t let uninformed nerds convince you that somehow PHP has problems. It doesn’t.

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