Re: [PHP-DEV] Conference Materials Site From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 07/15/00

> How about setting the contents for a PHP course? I was in the situation of
> giving a course in PHP for a week at Public Administration Training Center,
> and found it hard to choose *what* to teach'em. PHP is already huge, lots
> of function and functionalities, yet here and there missing docs.
>
> I was thinking it would be truly useful to set up such couse materials, say
> for three categories :
> novice -- learn the sintax and the term, general concepts, working with forms
> intermediate -- database interaction, array power,some selected modules,
> [like imap,mysql,odbc], etc.
> advanced -- OO programming, DB abstration layers, session usage for complex work, etc.
> uhm,not very inspired, just an example :)
>
> That would benefit ppl too, cause one can say `oh, I can start with novice first',
> and keep his/her mind clear of all the stuff (learning in small potions of `new'
> is a Good Thing[tm]) then go intermediate and advanced.
>
> There is already a fairly good manual, sites like upper-design or zend to collect
> script and libs, but these should be organized somehow to meet people's skills and
> undestanding.
>
> What do you think?

A course is a much bigger project. Once we have enough material at
conf.php.net, a course could very well be put together. But, lets figure
out how to crawl before we try to run a marathon.

-Rasmus 

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