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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 5:47 pm
by uberpolak
Too @#$%ing long. Can't wait to hear back from the broadcasting school I applied to. Time for a new career. Programming has become a pain.

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 8:44 pm
by jason
=)

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:59 am
by fastfingertips
I started two years ago and this is the major language that i've learned :)
Now my next point is to learn some C++ because i have to made some projects on that.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:55 am
by malcolmboston
ok i added the new options to the poll

well my first major project i completed after 3 weeks and that was for a administration back-end for a web-site ive been working on for the last 7 months, however i did use a couple of snippets of code as well as my own so i dont class it as my own, however i do believe i could do it with the knowledge i possess now on my own.

well ive invested about £300 in learning PHP, thats how awesome it is, i spent around £160 on Zend Studio (honestly, this is the greatest piece of software ever, even if it is a resource eater on my 2.6ghz P4) and the rest on books and <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> like that

Well in the last 2 months (especially other the xmas period) i written 3 or 4 application by myself, not for the lack of wanting help mind, uni was closed for me so no internet for 3 weeks :twisted: , the most complex application i have written is probably my private messaging scripts, they run into 100's of lines of code, but ive built things like messaging boards, data-driven sites from MySQL, if/else depending on what browser the user is viewing and redirecting to a new site, guestbook, a chat site that was <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> etc etc etc

however i think the best thing about PHP is that it is actually fun, and makes you want to continue, the amount of times ive punched my monitor other error messages from PHP then cuddled it 5 minutes later after i sort out the problem is amazing

I am pretty fortunate in that i already have a grasp of many languages so find it alot easier than some, however i still believe PHP follows the old motto "easy to learn, hard to master"

hope you are all having as much fun as i am having learning it

learning next
Loops and Mathemical Expressions

Next Leisure Project
well after watching the darts all week i thouhgt i would test out my mathematical PHP skills, say i type in 170, it would tell me how to 'hit out' from that, i dont need this app for anything but i think it could be fun making

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:00 am
by JayBird
malcolmboston wrote:Next Leisure Project
well after watching the darts all week i thouhgt i would test out my mathematical PHP skills, say i type in 170, it would tell me how to 'hit out' from that, i dont need this app for anything but i think it could be fun making
I was thinking exactly the same thing whilst watching the darts, great minds hey :)

Let me know how you get on.

Mark

P.S. If you need software gimme a shout, could have saved you £160 ;)

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:04 am
by malcolmboston
hehe, it would test my skills but i need to learn te maths side of PHP first but i got loads of books on it

well bech yeah, i could of downloaded it of kazaa(like MX studio muahaha) however i use it at my job on my laptop as well so my employees wouldnt like to get closed down because of the sake of £160

idiots if you ask me :lol:

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:05 am
by JayBird
ah yes, thats different. I only do that kinda thing for personal use.

Mark

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:11 am
by malcolmboston
ditto

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 11:36 am
by BDKR
Shendemiar wrote:I started yesterday.
Cool! This is when it's the most fun and irritating at the same time. Learning something new is allways cool if you ask me.

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 11:39 am
by BDKR
xisle wrote:summer 1999 would be about the time...
That's about the same time for me as well. It was php3 then and php4 was nearing the finish line. Ah, the good old days.....

Cheers,
BDKR

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 12:00 pm
by Nay
Bech100 wrote:....great minds hey :)
Oh please Mark, melodramatic eh?

-Nay

:D

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 10:04 pm
by DuFF
I think around last May, so it'll be a year soon. Learned HTML at age 13, went on to a little self-taught C++ and then switched to PHP and have never looked back 8) .

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:09 pm
by timhortons
Lets just say I've been doing it so long that I sometimes question why I do it. I cant remember exact dates anymore, just aproximations... I figure, i started PHP just over a year ago, and HTML over three of four years ago. As for computers, hehe, I am ashamed to say I was aquinted with windows 3.11, but ironically, I kinda like it best outta the windows series because it never crashed. not once. of course, i do like Windows XP, at least they had the decency to hide the blue screens better.

Anyways, rambling... so yeah, PHP just over one year ago ;) and it's fun as hell

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:26 pm
by infolock
I remember when php first came out and a buddy was telling me how "php was gonna be the way", but I actually didn't listen to him.. (this was in 1998 or so ). least to say, a few years later I found out just how true he was ;) his nick was isolation x ( or iso for short ).

so, in late 2001 i began my journey into php. i didn't know much about it, and still don't, but we get better as we find new things to develop :D

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:50 pm
by Pyrite
I wonder if anyone has made PCP yet? Like a personal c-style pre-processor... like write you webpages in C ..nevermind that what's PHP is.