How did you learn to code/program?
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- jayshields
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your poll title is misleading 
i was half way through my first year studying a btec national diploma in IT (software developement) when i started getting properly into PHP. so i guess i could say college taught me to program, allbeit in visual basic and not PHP.
but then i bought a book and learnt all my php knowledge from that, before that book, i had basic knowledge from tinkering with php nuke when i used to maintain a clan site
so i was taught how to program/code by college in visual basic, but i taught myself PHP by reading books and now writing small programs while referring to php.net obv
i was half way through my first year studying a btec national diploma in IT (software developement) when i started getting properly into PHP. so i guess i could say college taught me to program, allbeit in visual basic and not PHP.
but then i bought a book and learnt all my php knowledge from that, before that book, i had basic knowledge from tinkering with php nuke when i used to maintain a clan site
so i was taught how to program/code by college in visual basic, but i taught myself PHP by reading books and now writing small programs while referring to php.net obv
I've learned php myself.
But, i learned basic when i was 10..
Got pascal, perl, visual basic, java, cobol, c++ courses at university..
Right now i'm spending a lot of time trying out struts and jsf (myfaces, oracle adf, ..)..
Basically, if you're planning to learn php you also have to learn html (as this is what you will be generating most of the time) and (my)sql.
But, i learned basic when i was 10..
Got pascal, perl, visual basic, java, cobol, c++ courses at university..
Right now i'm spending a lot of time trying out struts and jsf (myfaces, oracle adf, ..)..
Basically, if you're planning to learn php you also have to learn html (as this is what you will be generating most of the time) and (my)sql.
- n00b Saibot
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Well, i've found a couple of slides which i find really great. Although the author offers a free pdf version of his first edition, i decided to buy to book because i really like his way of writing
I'm talking about http://www.coreservlets.com/.
This time Sun/JCP has had the chance to learn from microsoft and improve instead of the usual other way round.
Together with JDevelopper and/or (My)Eclipse i think this will be a viable J2EE alternative for dotnet...
This time Sun/JCP has had the chance to learn from microsoft and improve instead of the usual other way round.
Together with JDevelopper and/or (My)Eclipse i think this will be a viable J2EE alternative for dotnet...
- n00b Saibot
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I first learned programming by taking classes, but that was long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Personal computers weren't available so the only way to gain access to a computer was by taking a class. My first classes were Basic in high school and Fortran in college. Since then I've been self taught in everything else I've needed to learn: C/C++, Perl, PHP, Java.
My school our class would be starting to learn HTML in the coming term after my trials! Isnt that amazing? HTML! And thats only because we are ahead of the other computer studies class...
Hopefully next year in year 11 the course software design and development which im taking will be a tad more advanced.
Hopefully next year in year 11 the course software design and development which im taking will be a tad more advanced.
Oh, that's not as bad as a friend of mine's story. He signed up to learn HTML as an elective, only to learn, once he was locked into his decision, that the school had decided to teach them all Frontpage Express instead.mickd wrote:My school our class would be starting to learn HTML in the coming term after my trials! Isnt that amazing? HTML! And thats only because we are ahead of the other computer studies class...
Hopefully next year in year 11 the course software design and development which im taking will be a tad more advanced.
Gosh, that would suck...
Well, I originally learned programming in class. We did Logo, on an Apple 2.
However, I learned PHP by looking at the code of Blacknova Traders, jumping in to fix a bug, got CVS access in 24 hours, and the rest, as they say, is history..
However, I learned PHP by looking at the code of Blacknova Traders, jumping in to fix a bug, got CVS access in 24 hours, and the rest, as they say, is history..