Chris Lott wrote: > I'll be teaching a web development class in the Spring in which I plan to > focus on PHP and MySQL as primary tools. These will be students who have > experience with HTML And web design, but most will have no experience with > programming at all. > > I need recommendations for book(s) that will serve as decent primers... I > expect that the PHP book will have enough of the fundamentals of > programming to set them on the right path...
I'm biased, but the PHP 4 Bible book is good. :-) The Luke and Laura book (Welling and Thompson) is probably even better for that, given that they teach 200 grad students per quarter at Melbourne Royal Institute of Technology... But none of the PHP books are really geared as "Programming 101" textbooks... Plan on spending a considerable amount of lecture time off the book about programming in general. Luke and Laura gave a great talk at the San Diego OS Conference about using PHP in the classroom, so get those slides if you can, and suck up to them a lot since they've been there. :-) > Any suggestions for a MySQL book would be great. If both were in one book, > even better! The New Riders MySQL book by Paul DuBois is the one to go for if you opt for a separate MySQL book. PS I'm available as a guest lecturer :-) -- Like music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
