How to become a programmer

Re:How to become a programmer by superjared on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @01:33PM (#90810)

When I started coding I found a book that spoke to me -- This is very important because if you get a book you don't like or understand you will not want to learn from it.

And I tend to agree you should probably not start with PHP as your first language. I did, and now all I do is Python and Ruby which are significantly better, imho.

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Re:How to become a programmer by lowfat on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @01:45PM (#90813)

The reason I picked PHP, is that so many open source web stuff seems to be written in PHP and I want to be able to customize these apps (ex: joomla, wordpress, etc). But ultimately I just want to code without thinking and if python or ruby takes me there faster, so be it.

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Re:How to become a programmer by pistoriusp on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @03:59PM (#90874)

I've been a PHP developer for 6 years and I'm a ZCE. When possible I choose Python over PHP for web related things.

I think the main thing to accept is that if you're going to be coding then you're going to be thinking a lot. If you're not thinking and going on auto pilot then you don't know enough...

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