don’t eat paste (learning PHP part iii)

By drasch, on October 16th, 2006%

Hi, David. This is an interesting approach, but I think it’s a solution to a slightly different problem than teaching someone PHP. Instead, it’s a solution to teaching someone the basics of building a web app and you just happen to use PHP to teach those concepts. A perfectly worthwhile and desirable goal, but different.
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David Sklar

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Learning PHP sans bad habits

By drasch, on October 12th, 2006%

I’ve received some fatalistic responses to my last installment related to what I see as problems with PHP teachings. In particular, I fear we teach people to write applications in ways that are reckless to the fact that these individuals likely read no more than 1-2 PHP books and move on to start writing their . . . → Read More: Learning PHP sans bad habits

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