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Brad  Joined April 2007 |
What do you think is the best way to learn PHP? Reading these tutorials, buying books or simply viewing lines and lines of code? __________________________________ |
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| Replied - Sunday 9th September 2007 at 8:33PM [Post Link] | |
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Will  Joined October 2005 |
Agreed - books are useless, and costly too. Have you seen how much books on MySQL and so on cost in book shops? In excess of £40 - the ones that aren't for dummies at least..
A lot of time, I learnt off the PHP manual and Googling for stuff. Whenever I got to an obstacle, I knew there'd be something in PHP that would be able to overcome it. Unfortunately due to the non-uniform naming conventions employed by PHP's writers I couldn't just guess. Overall, it depends really. Some people prefer to learn by doing or seeing things hands on, whereas others prefer a load of planning. Tutorials always come in handy anywhere though. __________________________________ |
| Replied - Sunday 9th September 2007 at 8:48PM [Post Link] | |
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poe  Joined April 2007 |
I guess I've learned most by looking at code. I think I learn best that way because I find it pretty easy to understand what the code does. But I also follow tutorials and googling for stuff.
But I don't like books. I once bought a book for JavaScript, but I never really used it. It was boring with the black and white colors only, and it's annoying to look in the book while your typing on the keyboard. Much easier to just switch between two windows. __________________________________ |
| Replied - Monday 10th September 2007 at 10:28AM [Post Link] | |
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Alec  Joined April 2007 |
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| Replied - Monday 10th September 2007 at 5:57PM [Post Link] | |
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Tubby  Joined July 2007 |
I definitely learned most from getting a few lines from code and just modifying until it didnt work.
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| Replied - Monday 10th September 2007 at 6:27PM [Post Link] | |
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Brad Joined April 2007 |
[QUOTE] Tubby said (10th September @ 16:57pm): I definitely learned most from getting a few lines from code and just modifying until it didnt work. Oh, that's unique. I imagine it's hard to learn that way though, but what do I know? __________________________________ |
| Replied - Monday 10th September 2007 at 7:02PM [Post Link] | |
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adam2z  Joined October 2005 |
books are not useless, they are an invaluable tool as they are comprehensive and written by people far better than any of us.
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| Replied - Monday 10th September 2007 at 10:31PM [Post Link] | |
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just.xTc  Joined October 2005 |
[QUOTE] adam2z said (10th September @ 18:02pm): books are not useless, they are an invaluable tool as they are comprehensive and written by people far better than any of us. LISTEN TO THIS MAN __________________________________ |
| Replied - Tuesday 11th September 2007 at 12:51AM [Post Link] | |
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Brad Joined April 2007 |
[QUOTE] (Unsourced): just.xTc said (10th September @ 21:31pm): [quote=adam2z;1189447365]books are not useless, they are an invaluable tool as they are comprehensive and written by people far better than any of us. LISTEN TO THIS MAN It all comes down to what you prefer. __________________________________ |
| Replied - Tuesday 11th September 2007 at 2:34AM [Post Link] | |
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Xplicid  Joined April 2007 |
Reading a book, which is a whole scary 200 - 600 pages in just black and white, except the highlighted PHP code (for example) is boring. Whereas, a tutorial - or two on a fancy good looking website just appeals so much more better-er to me.
Website tutorials! Though, many tutorials are written by amateurs and not thoroughly explained. Theres the downfall. __________________________________ |
| Replied - Tuesday 11th September 2007 at 6:58PM [Post Link] | |
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adam2z Joined October 2005 |
they are also about specific tasks which can be a downfall. also they encourage copy pasting, which does not equate to knowledge.
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| Replied - Tuesday 11th September 2007 at 10:26PM [Post Link] | |
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Kyle  Joined August 2007 |
I think I've used all of these methods to learn the little I know. I think viewing others' code and then figuring out what it did, worked the best.
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| Replied - Saturday 6th October 2007 at 4:11PM [Post Link] | |
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Alex  Joined July 2007 |
Finding a code that is outdated / doesn't work, then fixing it helps me learn.
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| Replied - Saturday 19th April 2008 at 9:51PM [Post Link] | |
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fedekun  Joined April 2008 |
Books, really, tutorials dont conver the most essential facts, and of course a lot of practice
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