At 02:32 AM 08/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Does anyone know of a good course to learn PHP from absolutely
Before anyone tells me to RTFM, I would like to learn from someone else and ask questions :)
A course would be one way to learn PHP. Do you need one? It would depend on your background. If you have used Perl and/or C in the past then you may be able to pick up one of those "Teach Yourself PHP in X Days" type books. I have been programming a long time (over 20 years) and have used a variety of languages. A decent reference text is all I need to pick up the specific syntax of a new language and to learn what are the available built-in library routines to do various things. I went through the first 8 hours of an "...in 24 hours" book on PHP in about 1 hour and another 2 hours for the next several "hours" in the book.
Picking up a book can be much cheaper than most formal courses and you can go at your own pace. It will depend on how much programming background you have, if you have used languages with similar syntax, and if you can
nothing? pick
things up from books easily (some people can't). YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary before someone asks. :-)
It all depends, I find that while I can learn a lot from a book sometimes, (for example going from zero to newbie using the RH bible), I don't always have the luxury of six months to spend on something like this. I don't have much programming experience aside from Lingo and HTML, and thought it would be easier to learn by example from someone else. Its also good to be able to ask questions when you get stuck. Sid -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml