Back in my college days, I was exposed to web application development because of PHP. Angular was still in its infancy and I was not aware of AJAX at the time.

Back in my college days, I was exposed to web application development because of PHP. Angular was still in its infancy and I was not aware of AJAX at the time. PHP frameworks, specifically Laravel and Code Igniter, made it very easy for me to put my computer science education to practical use. And I was dropping files off into our student workbenches via FTP! There was very little overhead for me to get anything online.