Tips For Learning Coding Languages.

[DarK_AssassiN]

Is the bible series good for absolute beginners?

[MrTaco]

IMO the most fun part of PHP is getting the text "Hello World!" on your screen :P
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Thats fun, I think the funnest part for me was getting it to say what ever is in the certain area in your address to come up on the screen with variables.

personally, i learned php by reading all the stuff on w3schools.com, trying it out and writing the code as I went, all before i went to bed. Then id sleep on it, wake up, and do it again. Seem to memorize it pretty fast that way.

Books are good as well.

Really though, trying the codes out, and seeing how far you can push the code with what youve learned so far is a good way to memorize it. Try things out a few different ways and you not only learn what you can do with it but it helps you pound it into your head as well.

[bblincoe]

Yes I would say the bible series is good for beginners, at least the PHP one. It moves from the history of PHP, compares it to other languages in its spectrum, then gets into the nitty gritty coding. Very good buy!

The javascript book is dry. I won't lie about that, but once you get through the first 80-100 pages (lol) it gets very interesting. I purchased that along with Sitepoint's Building Your Own AJAX Web Applications (another great book).

Hope that helps!

[no1cromo]

i have the css for dummies, ebook, thats a good one, loads of stuff in it but its gd.

[aquariancore]

Is the bible series good for absolute beginners?
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For beginners the bible series is overwhelming

i have the css for dummies, ebook, thats a good one, loads of stuff in it but its gd.
[/b]

I didn't know the dummies series had a css book. I perfer interactive tutorials. can anyone recommend one on CSS?

[aquariancore]

Yo, what's up? (:

I've never really been much of a coder, more of a designer.
However, I've tried numerous times to learn languages such as CSS and PHP, all to find that I lose track of what I'm doing and/or forget what I've learned.

All I'm looking for, is to find out your best methods for learning.
Be it coding, or just general things to do with web development.

What are they?
Do you sit for hours and hours and work constantly to "drill" things into your head?
Do you buy books that take you from the first step to the last? (From basic to advanced?)
Do you read over specific online tutorials and try to modify them to do what you want to do?
Etc etc.

Please post your methods. ^_^

EDIT: Just realized this might not be the correct forum. xD!
Sorry if it isn't. >_<
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Get dreamweaver to help with the html. To learn other code languages I use video tutorials.

[Scott]

I still stand by just doing trial and error stuff... But I happen to agree with the video tutorials business, they help out a lot too...

[no1cromo]

ialso find that just figuring the program (if you have the program) out itsself then you can learn the code from there.

[Simpleminded]

I see where you fail. Learn HTML before css and PHP, becuase they both utilize html

[aquariancore]

I see where you fail. Learn HTML before css and PHP, becuase they both utilize html
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Absolutely, if you don't understan html, you're going to be lost anyway.