Comments on: Learn Programming Languages

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:43:46 +0000

I love responding to blog posts 3 months after everyone’s stopped keeping track of the comments… :)

O’Reilly’s and HeadFirst both have top notch programming books on just about any platform you want. But. Tutorials, videos, and books are useful as a jumping off point and for reference (8+ years as a web developer, and I still use reference books), but the only way to learn how to program is to do it. Jump in and build something. Then get active in the community- find out what you’re doing right and what you’re doing wrong. Then keep improving.

Programming- from the simple to the very complicated- is a hands on process. You can’t learn it from a book or from a video.

By: somebody

somebody — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:27:40 +0000

The guys over at 3dBuzz have a very good set of videos on PHP and MySQL. It is what got me interested in web dev. They cover the basics of installing apache, mysql and PHP and getting them to work together, then show how to set up a database and code a very basic page to interact with it. After that, it’s very easy to advance using books or other online resources.

Go to http://www.3dbuzz.com and click on the video training link. I think it requires free registration, but it’s worth it. They also offer for-pay training on many 3d software packages.

By: Emile Bourquin

Emile Bourquin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:07:35 +0000

I liked “PHP and MySQL Web Development” by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson for coming up to speed on both PHP and MySQL, and making them work together.

http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Development-Developers-Library/dp/0672326728/ref=sr_1_12/105-8796449-4288416?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194674660&sr=1-12

By: Arthur Pope

Arthur Pope — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:07:23 +0000

My favorite website for learning html and css is http://htmldog.com

They have fantastic tutorials, taking you all the way from beginner to advanced, and in a very logical prograssion.

I like w3schools as well.

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By: Steve O

Steve O — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:26:37 +0000

A site/company that I use is http://technicallead.com. They offer trainings is everything from Intro to Dreamweaver/Flash/HTML to Web Development with Coldfusion or PHP. they also offer some of their tips/trainings as podcasts on iTunes.

By: Brian B.

Brian B. — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:33:21 +0000

http://www.lynda.com has great tutorials presented as quicktime movies on a WIDE array of topics, including php and mysql. It is a pay site, but they really cover a lot. The PHP/Mysql course is a whopping 10.75 hours!

By: David Y.

David Y. — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:36:27 +0000

One forum that I found a while ago (I think about 3 years ago, at the time of writing) is http://www.gamedev.net, which is really for any sort of programming as well as game development related things (including music, art, etc). They also have a pretty good sized collection of articles on programming, etc. I know of quite a few other programming sites, but it sounds like he mainly wants web programming sites, and I don’t know a whole lot of web programming oriented sites other than the ones you listed.

Also, there’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you, Cali, have you considered doing some programming news on the Brief? I’m a programmer myself, so I would find that interesting.

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