Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Suggestions for learning php Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 20:31:29 +0200 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tgES3IbsfoX57pjyiQjZTgd4dw5R6PnFvZb1uIbnOrf1R6HN3a Cancel-Lock: sha1:xB71E6aV+TSk7VhkqFVK82bsW3o= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:17783 On 02/07/18 20:10, Jeroen Belleman wrote: > On 02/07/18 18:03, Richard Yates wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 08:00:04 -0400, bill >> wrote: >> >>> My daughter knows html and has built and maintained websites for >>> years.  Her job took her away from that and now has brought her >>> back.  She needs to learn PHP/MySQL rapidly and has the time to >>> do so. >>> >>> Obviously, my books are way out of date.  Would you be so kind as >>> to make suggestions for books/tutorials to learn PHP/MySQL. >>> >>> -bill >> >> https://www.amazon.com/Learning-PHP-MySQL-JavaScript-jQuery/dp/1491978910/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1530547235 >> >> > > Type "learning php" into a search engine. Plenty of things come up. > I found very helpful, > but there are lots of on-line resources. Same for SQL, in several > incarnations. I happen to like SQLite, but you can make your own > choices. For those who are interested in later taking a Computer Science degree, looking at courses at https://www.Edx.org can be worth the time and many of the courses give you credit on higher educations. Here is two courses: https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-apr-computer-science-principles-harvardx-cs50-ap https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programming-delftx-fp101x-0 If you pay for the courses, you get a certificate that you can have on your wall, or else you just learn the skills for free. -- //Aho