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Old October 9th, 2012, 10:12 AM
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Hi all, first post so be nice! hehe

Just started university and the uni has changed the course structure so now the course I'm doing (comp science) will do python, c++ and front end website HTML/CSS. I was really hoping to do PHP/JavaScript/SQL on the course so I can advance and become a web developer.

I was just wondering how easy it is too pickup PHP and JavaScript? I was thinking about over the xmas/summer just going through the PHP manual and self teaching myself just like I did with MSL & HTML/CSS.

Anyway, any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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They're probably going to teach you web development using Python instead of PHP. Python is a great language with a growing following.

If you still want to learn PHP, the best way is to get a real book (like the O'Reilly PHP/MySQL book) and work through it, trying out all the examples. You can also stay on the forums for a while and read about best practices and how to fix common problems.

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If you already know C or C++, PHP will not be a difficult language to learn. The concepts, syntax and standard library are all pretty similar.

You'll probably find JavaScript to be a bit more difficult for a variety of reasons not directly related to the language itself.

Simple SQL is not difficult to learn at all because it's so simple, but more complicated SQL requires a radically different thought approach than any of the other languages you mentioned because it's a declarative language rather than a procedural one (Python, C++, PHP and JavaScript are all procedural).
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