Visual quickstart guide
by Chris Fehily · first published 2002
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I fond the first part of Programming PHP good as it went over the commands really well and gave some nice examples of use. I started with Visual Quickstart Guide to PHP (current ed: http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Web-Visual-QuickStart-Edition/dp/0... ) It covers a lot of ground on the basics, and was very happy with it. Once you get going php.net's on-line manual…
on “Ask HN: Learning PHP Suggest Book” ↗Second Robbins’ “Learning Web Design.” Also, if you’re really a true beginner, also try “HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide” by Joe Cassabona. VQS is great because as you’re trying to learn an aspect of code, it includes a text explanation, what the code looks like and what you should expect to see on screen. Good luck!…
on “Ask HN: Best self-starter resources to learn web design?” ↗…possibly the problem isn't Google; perhaps it's you. For instance, http://www.javascriptworld.com (which I run) is NOT a link farm. Rather, it's there to support the book "JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7th edition" (by Tom Negrino and myself). Numerous colleges & universities courses use our book as a required textbook. Consequently, many teachers & professors link to it from course websites to let…
on “Google search and search engine spam” ↗…discover things I like and then search for it along with the term -jquery or "vanilla javascript" and work out just the code I need. For reading: For HTML find a good book on the basics (I had used Visual Quickstart Guide to HTML, but I bet there might be better ones now), for CSS I recommend "Stylin' with CSS" which will keep things simple. Maybe "Handcrafted CSS" to learn how to refine styles even more. Another great…
on “Ask HN: How to learn front-end development as a back-end web developer?” ↗