"Gabino Travassos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Personally, if I was teaching someone programming concepts from scratch I > would start them with Javascript. It's mostly platform-independent, you
>From my experience, PHP is much better at running the same code on different platforms than JS is. > don't need to install any software, and you don't need to upload your files > to a server that has PHP installed. Most of the basics (functions, You will need to download and install at least 3 different browsers just to cover all your bases. And I would bet that most PHP developers don't need to upload any files to test their code. > I like the PHP book from Wiley. And MySQL/PHP Database Applications from M&T > Books. > For Javascript, buy the cheapest, oldest used book you can find. Or Inside > Javascript from New Riders. I have a JS book I'll sell cheap ($5). It's called Beginning Javascript. Way too simplistic for what I wanted to use it for. -- Rob -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
