Everything you learn about programming will help you if you decide to find a technical cofounder. "Facebook for an untapped market" already exists, its called

Everything you learn about programming will help you if you decide to find a technical cofounder. "Facebook for an untapped market" already exists, its called facebook. But really, you understand how facebook works and so making this site is a reasonable thing to play around with-- well, making the very basics of a site like this would be a good start. Programming languages are like speaking languages. You don't have specific languages for specific types of books, right? So you can write websites in any language, or shrinkwrapped software in any language. That said some are easier than others. Python would be a good choice because it is easier than java and popular for web development. Others recommended PHP which I understand is very easy, but not good for getting good programming practices under your belt. I think you should build a static website (which is just HTML and maybe some CSS) and put it on your domain. This would be a good first step. Then look at making a little more interactivity. You might check out google app engine. Free hosting and they have lots of tutorials and they have a simple web framework written in python you can use. (I learned what I know of python by working thru the app engine tutorials. prior to that I hadn't used python.)