Re: Simplistic PHP tutorial
| From: | Rob Adams | Date: | Tue, 25 May 2004 17:09:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Simplistic PHP tutorial | ||
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"Gabino Travassos" <mote@moteinteractive.com> wrote in message
news:029201c44273$be878040$6401a8c0@GABINO...
> Personally, if I was teaching someone programming concepts from scratch I
> would start them with Javascript. It's mostly platform-independent, you
From my experience, PHP is much better at running the same code on different
platforms than JS is.
> don't need to install any software, and you don't need to upload your
files
> to a server that has PHP installed. Most of the basics (functions,
You will need to download and install at least 3 different browsers just to
cover all your bases. And I would bet that most PHP developers don't need
to upload any files to test their code.
> I like the PHP book from Wiley. And MySQL/PHP Database Applications from
M&T
> Books.
> For Javascript, buy the cheapest, oldest used book you can find. Or Inside
> Javascript from New Riders.
I have a JS book I'll sell cheap ($5). It's called Beginning Javascript.
Way too simplistic for what I wanted to use it for.
-- Rob