Specifically PHP coding. I am looking for something to do with my summers, and I thought I’d dabble in web site construction. Is there a good place to start? I don’t want to take a class from a horrible teacher, and waste my money. I know a little html, and get really excited when it works.
Any advise on where to go?
Why not just self teach yourself… I’m assuming you know absolutely nothing
w3schools.com and go from there. Which is Free
Learn on the internets.
There is classes at UB in their Millard Filmore school which blow. Honestly, the professor was a moron and 1/2 of the shit she tried to teach I corrected.
If you want to learn, the best thing to do is make projects for yourself for example a database interactive page that pulls data, then do one that adds data, then work with sessions, etc… and google how to do certain parts. Thats how I learned and then from there I went into reading the proper way to do specific things.
i agree, check out w3schools is a good place to start.
after that get some ideas of what you like
check your code with this tool here…
http://validator.w3.org/
after that pick up photoshop and start learning that as well to learn.
Some other cool links
http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm
oh for PHP check out
http://php.net/
http://dev.mysql.com/
http://danga.com/memcached/
http://books.google.com/books?id=gXmatd2suh4C
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xmlhttpreq.html
http://blog.case.edu/gps10/2007/01/26/digg_facebook_scaling_and_php
also, remember that php and web design are two different things. im a coder, i write php code but my web design is shit.
focusing on one or the other helps you better learn. if you want to learn code, learn the functions and programming part. if you want to get into graphics and design, learn the html/css/photoshop part.