Re: Re: Books for PHP and MySQL Class

Hi Richard, _PHP4 A Beginner's Guide_ is geared especially to first-time programmers... John >Chris Lott wrote: > >> I'll be teaching a web development class in the Spring in which I plan to >> focus on PHP and MySQL as primary tools. These will be students who have >> experience with HTML And web design, but most will have no experience with >> programming at all. >> >> I need recommendations for book(s) that will serve as decent primers... I >> expect that the PHP book will have enough of the fundamentals of >> programming to set them on the right path... > >I'm biased, but the PHP 4 Bible book is good. :-) > >The Luke and Laura book (Welling and Thompson) is probably even better for >that, given that they teach 200 grad students per quarter at Melbourne >Royal Institute of Technology... > >But none of the PHP books are really geared as "Programming 101" >textbooks... Plan on spending a considerable amount of lecture time off >the book about programming in general. > >Luke and Laura gave a great talk at the San Diego OS Conference about using >PHP in the classroom, so get those slides if you can, and suck up to them a >lot since they've been there. :-) > >> Any suggestions for a MySQL book would be great. If both were in one book, >> even better! > >The New Riders MySQL book by Paul DuBois is the one to go for if you opt >for a separate MySQL book. > >PS I'm available as a guest lecturer :-) > >-- >Like music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- /* SteeleSoft Consulting John Steele - Systems Analyst/Programmer * We also walk dogs... Dynamic Web Design PHP/MySQL/Linux/Hosting * www.steelesoftconsulting.com jsteele@steelesoftconsulting.com */