Re: Learning about classes

Hi Scott! On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Scott S. Nicholson wrote: > Can anyone point out some good learning resources to help me get a grip on > classes? > > The only coding experience I've had before I started with PHP is BASIC on an > old Atari, Pascal on an old Mac, one quarter of C in college, and a bit of > HTML and JavaScript. I've never learned anything about OOP and such. > > All I've been able to find on classes in PHP seems to assume that I already > know something. > > Any ideas? Generally, any book on C++ would suffice, but as PHP's support for OO paradigms is not the brightest I think you should go with any online tutorial. But, take the same steps as programming did. First try to acommodate with PHP, by coding in a procedural manner. An at some point you'll realize you need to organize your code, for more flexibility and mentenability, for easier understanding of what's going on. Take any book on any OOP and check the first chapters on OO paradigms. For advanced use of classes and patterns I would recommend "Design Patterns" by Gamma et al. I found it to be great. my .002c :) -- teodor