Re: Learning PHP5
| From: | Danny Brow | Date: | Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:25:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Learning PHP5 | ||
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On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 20:20 -0500, Greg Donald wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:12:12 -0400, Michael Lauzon <mlauzon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately the PHP.net are not really for beginners, you have to
> > have some programming knowledge to get started using their
> > tutorials...this is just my opinion.
>
> Well you're certainly entitled to your opinion..
>
> I program in multiple languages as do many people on this list. And I
> for one have to say that it doesn't get any more simple than PHP and
> the ease of learning you get from it's excellent online manual. No
> other programming manual even comes close. You get well documented
> usage examples plus hundreds if not thousands of user comments that
> often contain even more coding examples. Being able to teach yourself
> kinda goes along with being a programmer.. and PHP.net totally
> accelerates that function.
>
> Go out and try to learn Perl, Python, Java, or C (with no prior
> programming knowledge) and get back to me. It's certainly possible,
> but I wouldn't want to learn Perl again from scratch.
>
I have to agree with this, Learning PHP 5 and the online manual are
making this very easy for me, I can almost say it's as easy as HTML. But
this maybe because I know perl.
Dan.