[ciapug] Follow-up

[Carl Olsen]

Hi Chris,

The Pro PHP5 Wrox book is riddled with errors, but I think that actually
helped me learn the material, since I had to figure out how to make it run
(it really is an excellent book).  The "PHP Object, Patterns and Practices"
by Apress is perfect so far - I don't remember seeing one error.  My
impression of Apress books is that they are the best.  Wrox books are good
because they are so tutorial, but they don't seem to care much about errors.
I bought the Beginning C# (2003 version) and Wiley couldn't even find the
answers to the questions at the end of the chapter (they went out of
business and Wiley bought them).  I finally did get the answers, but it took
a while.  The absolute best book I own is "ASP.NET Website Programming -
Problem - Design - Solution" (by Wrox) - I just can't say enough good things
about the book, it's just awesome.  If the PHP version is as good, I'm going
to get a copy immediately.  What do you think of it?

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Phillips [mailto:scott.phillips at DRAKE.EDU] 
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 9:18 AM
To: carl-olsen at mchsi.com; ciapug at cialug.org
Subject: RE: [ciapug] Follow-up

Hey, Carl. The one apress book (formerly wrox or vice versa?) I've 
purchased ("PHP MySQL Website Programming: Poblem - Design - Solution") had 
sample code so rittled with errors is was almost useless.  Have you seen 
that in the others or was this just a bad apple?


At 08:49 AM 10/21/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>I like books.  I'm reading Beginning PHP5 and MySQL (apress.com), PHP
>Objects, Patterns, and Practices (apress.com), and PHP5 Recipes
>(apress.com).  I've also been reading Professional PHP5 (wrox.com).
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf
>Of Tina White
>Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:07 PM
>To: ciapug at cialug.org
>Subject: [ciapug] Follow-up
>
>Tony and others,
>
>I've been doing some relatively simple PHP for a few months, so I've had to
>learn-by-fire :-). But I'm struggling with some relatively complicated code
>right now and wondering if there's a better way to learn. I really don't
>have a programming background at all, I'm sorry to say.
>
>Suggestions?
>
>- Tina
>
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