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When I learnt PHP I didn't really needed a book. What I put on my pipeline was like 'build a small blog cms'. I then figured out how to do it, applying also my
by napolux 14y ago
When I learnt PHP I didn't really needed a book.
What I put on my pipeline was like 'build a small blog cms'. I then figured out how to do it, applying also my previous C language knowledge and digging the manual for syntax and functions specs.
After having it working in a very "procedural" way I started to make it OOO compliant (it was PHP4) and then I refined it for some times.
I have a question, btw...
How could it be that you are not a newbie to programming but PHP is your FIRST programming language?
- musiic703 14y agoThat last part made me laugh out loud
- vicks711 14y agoI had taken 3 programming courses at engineering school. 2 were machine level languages and C. I have not created anything worthwhile apart from a college project in C (online reservation system). That was way back in 2001. After having worked in finance industry for 12 plus years I am trying to reinvent myself as a programmer. I started by learning ruby. I liked pragmatic programmer's guide to ruby (the pickaxe book). The concepts are explained in very clear and practical manner. In my experience learning from a book increases the speed of learning. But I think learning from reading manual is also not a bad idea. It takes more time and gets hands dirty but then one learns so many things. BTW I abandoned Ruby in favour of PHP is because I think there are more freelancer projects in PHP including Wordpress development projects.