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Re: Wchich software should beginner use? [message #173751 is a reply to message #173746]

Tue, 03 May 2011 02:54

Peter H. Coffin
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On Mon, 2 May 2011 11:12:21 -0700 (PDT), Petey wrote:

> Hey
>
> I'd like to ask what kind of additional software should I use.

If you're a beginner, you should be using the absolute minimum software
required to learn php. Ideally, this won't even included a webserver.
You'll be using a text editor to write programs, then executing them
from the command line. Once you know how to write php, THEN you can
start adding databases, webservers, IDEs and all the rest of that crap
into the mix.

The reason for this is simple: look over the history of the group. See
how many questions from beginners actually end up being about PHP. See
how many questions are ACTUALLY about some of the other cruft: for
example, tracking down a spurious linefeed at the end of an include file
that's causing a header problem with some fancy redirect thing, only the
beginner takes four days to even find the error message because some web
page said that error reporting was a security risk. Does the beginner
know that this isn't a PHP problem? No. Does this in any way help the
beginner learn any PHP? Only incidentally.

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		Wchich software should beginner use? By: Petey on Mon, 02 May 2011 18:12
		Re: Wchich software should beginner use? By: Michael Fesser on Mon, 02 May 2011 21:51
		Re: Wchich software should beginner use? By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 03 May 2011 02:54
		Re: Wchich software should beginner use? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Tue, 03 May 2011 07:53

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