general design question: Hiarchy, pattern of thoughts
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:05 pm
Please forgive my grammar if I don't sound intelligent it is because English is not my native tongue and trying best I can.
I have learned a lot of the basic stuff in php and every time I say to myself "ok I know the basic, I should be able to write something simple with that knowledge, but every time I end up in from of a new sheet I go blank. I never know how to start, what steps to follow what function to use and where to use it. do you learn php programing by copying and pasting and after a few years a light finally pops up, or there is actually a method to this madness, a way you can learn how to do things the right way from the start?
I'm asking this because I have wasted so much time trying to get guidance on how to proceed and got really bad tutors who got me to use old deprecated methods that made me look ridiculous after having spent 200 hours trying to build a sequence of functions to log into a database and get a user signed up. The thing is everyone keeps on telling me to read about it but there are no books out there that teach php. They dozens of basic php books I read only show how to add 2 +2 in a loop and how to give it a name and other functions. I haven't read a book, tutorial or video that actually tells you how to think things through, how to figure out how to chose the functions that you will need to build an app. All there is out there is thousand of different interpretations on what a function is and what it does. how do you put these function together though? am tired of reading the same thing over and over I feel like I am spinning my wheels and not getting anywhere and whenever I ask about guidance in forum I always get the same response: you should learn how to structure your questions better, or you should read about the basic.... should I just quit trying to post into forums?
is it a bad thing for a newbie for not wanting to copy codes and prefering to learn how to write my own codes?
I have learned a lot of the basic stuff in php and every time I say to myself "ok I know the basic, I should be able to write something simple with that knowledge, but every time I end up in from of a new sheet I go blank. I never know how to start, what steps to follow what function to use and where to use it. do you learn php programing by copying and pasting and after a few years a light finally pops up, or there is actually a method to this madness, a way you can learn how to do things the right way from the start?
I'm asking this because I have wasted so much time trying to get guidance on how to proceed and got really bad tutors who got me to use old deprecated methods that made me look ridiculous after having spent 200 hours trying to build a sequence of functions to log into a database and get a user signed up. The thing is everyone keeps on telling me to read about it but there are no books out there that teach php. They dozens of basic php books I read only show how to add 2 +2 in a loop and how to give it a name and other functions. I haven't read a book, tutorial or video that actually tells you how to think things through, how to figure out how to chose the functions that you will need to build an app. All there is out there is thousand of different interpretations on what a function is and what it does. how do you put these function together though? am tired of reading the same thing over and over I feel like I am spinning my wheels and not getting anywhere and whenever I ask about guidance in forum I always get the same response: you should learn how to structure your questions better, or you should read about the basic.... should I just quit trying to post into forums?
is it a bad thing for a newbie for not wanting to copy codes and prefering to learn how to write my own codes?