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Posted by Michael Vilain on 09/02/07 06:02
In article <fbdaug$8vj$1@aioe.org>, Blue_Hat <kamronb@Gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to learn PHP, I would like to know where I can get all the
> relevant info and resources and how do I start, I'm a novice at the
> whole programming thing, I know a little HTML and CSS, I've done web
> pages in Notepad and that's pretty much it.
>
> Would like to know how to proceed from a total novice's perspective
Don't know how you learn (that exercise is left to the reader), but some
people can just pick up a book or manual, read it, "get it", and start
to work. Others require a classroom environment to have the time
integrate the concepts, practice them using the lab exercises, and
ultimately learn what this thing called programming is. Once you learn
that first language, the "how to" is imprinted in your brain and you can
add or change to a different procedural language rather easily (C++ and
Lisp don't count!!).
When I first learned FORTRAN back in college in the 1970's (there was
only 1 section taught by an engineering professor--all the other
sections were PASCAL yech!), I had read the manual and learned the
statements of the language back in high school but never had a formal
class in programming. That one class did it. In the end, I was able to
code a simple Sieive of Erostophanes to find primes when I had no clue
on how to start at the beginning of the class.
My experience, unless you're one of those "I can read the manual and
just do it" types (in which case you'd already have found the manuals
and web sites through a Google search), you'd best find a beginning
programming class at a local community college. I think most of the
stuff out there on the net is geared towards people who already know how
to program and just need to know how to code in a particular language or
environment.
Here's a starting bibliography. I like the O'Reilly books (YMMV):
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progphp2/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/097524020X/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0957921853/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514013/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csstdg3/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/html6/
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