Learning PHP

Sidney Shapiro sidney-3Kd7Tu4o6f/sBN0MCq728g at public.gmane.org
Thu Aug 21 02:03:53 UTC 2003



> 
> At 02:32 AM 08/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Does anyone know of a good course to learn PHP from absolutely
nothing?
> >Before anyone tells me to RTFM, I would like to learn from someone
else
> >and ask questions :)
> 
> A course would be one way to learn PHP. Do you need one? It would
depend
> on
> your background. If you have used Perl and/or C in the past then you
may
> be
> able to pick up one of those "Teach Yourself PHP in X Days" type
books. I
> have been programming a long time (over 20 years) and have used a
variety
> of languages. A decent reference text is all I need to pick up the
> specific
> syntax of a new language and to learn what are the available built-in
> library routines to do various things. I went through the first 8
hours of
> an "...in 24 hours" book on PHP in about 1 hour and another 2 hours
for
> the
> next several "hours" in the book.
> 
> Picking up a book can be much cheaper than most formal courses and you
can
> go at your own pace. It will depend on how much programming background
you
> have, if you have used languages with similar syntax, and if you can
pick
> things up from books easily (some people can't). YMMV (Your Mileage
May
> Vary before someone asks. :-)

It all depends, I find that while I can learn a lot from a book
sometimes, (for example going from zero to newbie using the RH bible), I
don't always have the luxury of six months to spend on something like
this. I don't have much programming experience aside from Lingo and
HTML, and thought it would be easier to learn by example from someone
else. Its also good to be able to ask questions when you get stuck.

Sid


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