Posted by John Dunlop on 11/06/06 15:02

Jerry Stuckle:

> The discussion was about PHP tutorials, and Erwin the courses at w3schools.

_When_? We didn't start off talking about PHP tutorials. I brought
up the W3Schools' PHP tutorial first, because I thought that a
discussion of it would be appreciated. You then turned my criticism of
their HTML tutorial specifically and W3Schools in general, by some
weird logic, into an attack on their PHP tutorial. I did not, and
would not, "disparage" or otherwise comment on their PHP tutorial
before reading it.

> And you had to hop in there and comment about how you would not
> recommend w3schools - based on your experience with a single course.

Yes, if that is the quality of tutorial churned out by W3Schools.

> And you don't offer any alternatives.

Does my criticism not stand whether or not I offer any alternatives?

> And if you have a problem with one Microsoft product, do you claim ALL
> products from Microsoft are bad?

Of course not, but after two, three or more problematic products, you
might begin to question the company as a whole.

> Or if you use one thing from HotScripts, SourceForge or whatever, do you
> claim everything they have is terrible?

HotScripts and SourceForge are fundamentally different to W3Schools,
or at least the image W3Schools projects, in so far as HotScripts and
SourceForge host packages and products created by communities of
developers, whereas W3Schools is three authors making money from
writing tutorials.

http://www.w3schools.com/about/about_refsnes.asp

http://hotscripts.com/about/index.html
http://sourceforge.net/docs/about

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Jock

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