Hey guys,

Long time, no post. Life is good and all that, school, work, gf, the usual. Anyways, I am pretty experienced at programming (java, C, some python), but I want to learn about how to make websites.

So my question is, what should I learn?? Obviously I need to learn some HTML, but beyond that, where should I go to learn?? I will describe what I want to do in a little more detail.

In my applied math class last quarter, we made a model for finding the best bike paths based on user preferences (comfort with traffic, desire to avoid hills, safety concerns, desire to get to destination quickly, ect). The model works well, but we just manually collected data (elevation, speed limit, distance, ect) from areas using google earth. But ideally, this should be a website that scrapes data from the Google Maps API.

So my question is two-fold. What should I start learning if I want to get into designing modern, useful webpages and how useful will Google Map API be to get the some of the above listed data?? Does anyone here have experience with Google Map API??

Thanks!

tylerthemiler