Posted by Geoff Berrow on 01/24/06 10:11

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TurboFool contained the following:

>Alright, I need to learn PHP, but honestly I'm having trouble with some
>of the online tutorials for two reasons:
>
>1. They're incredibly dry and tend to just say what things do instead
>of going in-depth into examples.
>2. They don't provide me with excercises and projects in which to test
>out what I've learned. The best books I've ever read on any form of
>scripting, coding, programming, etc. give me tasks in which to use what
>I've been taught. I only learn well by doing, not simply by being
>presented with facts.
>

I have some course notes here for the first five lessons of an
introduction to PHP course I run. They contain examples and exercises.
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/phpcourse/1_introduction_variables.doc
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/phpcourse/2_control_structures.doc
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/phpcourse/3_arrays_and_loops.doc
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/phpcourse/4%20functions.doc
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/phpcourse/5_persistence.doc

I'd welcome any feedback.

The editor I recommend is
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
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