Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

Another one from this morning that didn't seem to make it to the list. >>On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:01:03 Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 07:14 -0400, David McGlone wrote: > > On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: > > > On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

David McGlone wrote: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:46:33 Nathan Rixham wrote: >> Aside: in every project i do, and at all times i have a test.php where I >> literally just try out ways of doing things and snippets of code, once >> I'm done i stick an exit; before it then do the next snippet above

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:01:03 Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 07:14 -0400, David McGlone wrote: > > On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: > > > On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote: > > > > Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > > > > > > > > For ins

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> Just build what you want to build and look things up when necessary. I did exactly like this. My first application is a forum. It never made it to production, but i learn a lot. And i am glad i learn it this way. It is a bit costly but fun. On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:01 PM, David McGlone wrote

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:46:33 Nathan Rixham wrote: > David McGlone wrote: > > On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: > >> On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote: > >>> Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > >>> > >>> For instance, is there a way to break everything do

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At 3:01 PM +0100 4/24/10, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I look at some code I did a while back and shudder. It started off well enough, but then feature creep set in and now it looks like a creation of Frankenstein! I think it happens to all of us at some point, it just depends how well we deal with it.

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 15:46 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: > David McGlone wrote: > > On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: > >> On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote: > >>> Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > >>> > >>> For instance, is there a way to break everything d

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

David McGlone wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: >> On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote: >>> Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? >>> >>> For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small >>> managable topics? >>> >>> -- >>> Blessings, >>> Da

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 07:14 -0400, David McGlone wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: > > On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote: > > > Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > > > > > > For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small > > > manag

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

On Apr 24, 2010, at 7:14 AM, David McGlone wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? -- Blessings, Da

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On Friday 23 April 2010 10:15:46 Paul M Foster wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:15:11AM -0400, David McGlone wrote: > > Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > > > > For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small > > managable topics? > > Obviously, a good book will help. I

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On Friday 23 April 2010 07:45:16 Michiel Sikma wrote: > On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote: > > Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > > > > For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small > > managable topics? > > > > -- > > Blessings, > > David M. > > Just build wh

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:15:11AM -0400, David McGlone wrote: > Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > > For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable > topics? Obviously, a good book will help. I'd recommend O'Reilly's "Programming PHP". Some of this also depe

Re: [PHP] Structured PHP studying

David McGlone wrote: Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? My way of learning a new language is to decide on a small project to code and then learn just that i need to do for that exact feature i imple

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On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote: > Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > > For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable > topics? > > -- > Blessings, > David M. > > Just build what you want to build and look things up when necessary. The biggest par

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On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 07:15 -0400, David McGlone wrote: > Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > > For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable > topics? > > -- > Blessings, > David M. > > I started the way I guess most people did: from a basic book whic

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On 23 April 2010 13:15, David McGlone wrote: > Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? > > For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable > topics? The Zend study guide might be a place to start - not for free thought, so there may be better options (it's also direct

[PHP] Structured PHP studying

Is there a good strategy to studying PHP? For instance, is there a way to break everything down into small managable topics? -- Blessings, David M. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php