Date: 06/16/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, software, xml, sql, java, web

Hello, I’m a second year Computer Science student at Cal Poly, SLO. With no open source or real world experience however I'm really eager to get involved in the open source community and start help developing software. Does any one have any suggestions for a newb. I would like to work on development of web applications preferably using PHP, MySQL, XML and using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax). However I am a beginner in all of these languages.

- What would be some good starting points for me? (Communities, progjects, work)
- Being that I'm a beginner how do I go about finding simple tasks/projects to start out with?
- Live Journal looks interesting to me but I have my heart set on learning PHP not perl. Is this dumb? Should I not be focused on the language but rather the project?


Thanks in advance for any advice you have for a newb.

Chris Smeder
http://www.livejournal.com/users/digitalunltd/

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