Hello everyone,

I'm currently in my final year studying computer science and I've been asked to develop a website based on the concept for which www.coursera.org was designed, which basically is to provide online learning solutions on a broad scale. Besides basic html and perhaps a little something on wordpress, I'm embarrassed to admit my web development experience leaves much to be desired.

I would really appreciate if someone could take a look at the website www.coursera.org and help point me in the right direction as to how to go about developing a website similar to that. I don't even know what tools or languages to use. I'm a pretty fast learner, and I'll appreciate your suggestions to help get me started.

Thanks.

Well there's lots to learn in order to accomplish a site like coursera.

However, given your task at hand you need to learn/ use the following:
1. Html5 and Javascript use a toolkit like Twitter Bootstrap to.make things easier.

2. Databases - simplest to comprehend mysql.

3. Video tutorials - upload them on YouTube and embed them in your site.

4. Web scripting language - PHP or python. These are the easiest and you'd be able to get tons of free turoriald.

5. Frameworks/ CMS - joomla, danjo, drupal , cakephp, code igniter. This is optional but it would make your job faster but you'd have to learn them and understand their underlying programming language .

6.W3schools is a good place to start

adewaleafolabi: Well there's lots to learn in order to accomplish a site like coursera.

However, given your task at hand you need to learn/ use the following:
1. Html5 and Javascript use a toolkit like Twitter Bootstrap to.make things easier.

2. Databases - simplest to comprehend mysql.

3. Video tutorials - upload them on YouTube and embed them in your site.

4. Web scripting language - PHP or python. These are the easiest and you'd be able to get tons of free turoriald.

5. Frameworks/ CMS - joomla, danjo, drupal , cakephp, code igniter. This is optional but it would make your job faster but you'd have to learn

them and understand their underlying programming language .

6.W3schools is a good place to start

Thank you so much. I learnt the front end was developed with backbone.js and then I saw something about django and php too, which you have mentioned. I think I'm getting a sense of where this has to go. Thanks again.

Nobody is asking you to copy the complete technology stack for Coursera. Just reproduce the structure and use tools that work for you.

Also do some research on MOOCs (this is a final year project and you should include some academic content). ( That simply means do a Google search on it ).

kodewrita: Nobody is asking you to copy the complete technology stack for Coursera. Just reproduce the structure and use tools that work for you.

Also do some research on MOOCs (this is a final year project and you should include some academic content). ( That simply means do a Google search on it ).

Thanks. I'll do that.