Posted by Matthew White on 09/03/07 13:50

In addition, the PHP manual is not a bad place to start, either. It
includes examples and descriptions of all built-in functions.
http://us.php.net/manual/en/

"Michael Vilain" <vilain@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> 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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