Where can I find an in-depth guide on how to develop social applications?

Question by Shiro: Where can I find an in-depth guide on how to develop social applications?
I’m talking about a guide for someone who knows basically nothing. I don’t know any form of programming except BASIC. I don’t know how the process works and how one goes about making a social app. I know I will have to learn some form of programming so I would also like to know where to find a good guide for that.

Best answer:

Answer by Voter
Here are 4 manual to do it
1) http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php
2) http://www.virtualmarketingblog.com/how-to-make-facebook-applications/
3) http://gathadams.com/2007/06/18/how-to-write-a-facebook-application-in-10-minutes/
4)http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Creating_your_first_application

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