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Re:What programming language should I start with? by mudge on Monday August 20, 2007 @10:08PM (#44585)
Do want to learn Web programming? PHP is probably the easiest programming language to learn for server-side web programming. I've read several books on PHP and looked over a bunch, and a lot are pretty good, but one of the best is this one: http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Development-Developers-Libra...
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by rms on Monday August 20, 2007 @10:44PM (#44602)
come on, let's not get in the habit of modding someone down because we disagree with them.
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by portLAN on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @06:05AM (#44728)
I'm modding it down to save anyone from being misled into PHP.
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by jey on Monday August 20, 2007 @10:15PM (#44590)
PHP is awful.
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by mudge on Monday August 20, 2007 @10:34PM (#44601)
It might be awful but it works well and is easy to learn.
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by dfranke on Monday August 20, 2007 @11:08PM (#44613)
Yes, but it'll teach you terrible habits.
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by mudge on Monday August 20, 2007 @11:34PM (#44623)
Like what?
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by dfranke on Monday August 20, 2007 @11:59PM (#44633)
Dumping things into global variables. Using regexes to hammer anything vaguely resembling a nail. Thinking in for loops when you should be thinking in higher-level abstractions.
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by jamongkad on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @06:47AM (#44734)
That may have been the PHP of old and sadly it is still practiced up to this day. But I'm telling you man PHP5 and it's implementations will blow alot of criticisms out of the water.
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