Re: FN-FORUM: out of interest

date posted 1st November 2007 20:59

A good friend of mine once offered the sagely advice

"when buying a book on a subject, buy two, the thickest and the thinnest".

Surprisingly effective IMO

--Richard

>
> pam wrote:
>> Php is my next mission,
>
> With PHP there will be a lot of tutorials teaching version 4 which
> becomes unsupported on 8/8/08 so you may want to check that you are
> learning from up-to-date tutorials.
>
> You may find that the hardest thing is getting a web server up and
> running and then getting it hosting multiple sites. Don't let this put
> you off, once you have it figured out then it gets easier. Having
> difficulties setting up a development environment has stopped me
> learning languages in the past.
>
> I have found "Upgrading to PHP5" from O'Reilly really useful, though I
> imagine you could do with something a bit more thorough to begin with.
>
> I try to avoid the thicker books, I find that they are thick because
> they are expected to be rather than because the need to be.
>
> Regards
> Richard
>
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