Posted by Schraalhans Keukenmeester on 04/27/07 11:57

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:55:43 +0800, Man-wai Chang wrote:

>> It's quite easy to lose sympathy/support here, it's getting a bit
>> annoying to see people bypassing the normal route: doing their own
>> homework and search the net or a manual for answers before falling back
>> on usenet.
>
> Homework means reading and understanding the codes used by the inventor
> of PHP or experienced PHP programmers. That's why I asked.
>
> And if you aren't interested in teaching or code sharing, you could
> simply ignore my questions.
>
> And what would you pay for a university course and then the lecturers
> and professors just ask you to go home and read the books yourself?

Man-wai. I was trying to get a point across. Of course you're free to
become defensive, but there's no need to. Take a step back, swallow pride,
take a deep breath and see you're not attacked in person.

Really, try to show a bit more effort on your own part wrt the questions
you put forward, be a little more specific about issues you run into, and
we're glad to help out. I know this PHP group has often been qualified as
'very friendly'. So it can't be that we're all brutal cavemen. And I am
sure a good PHP book or two, or a few decent online sources will answer
many of the questions you have asked here.

No offense taken btw.
Sh.

(And yes, sad to inform my Alma Mater required us to plan and do our own
work, be it reading, test lab experiments and what have you. Classical
lecture was mostly reserved for answering questions the self study
material put forward.) ;-)

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