I am looking for a new text for my beginning PHP and MySQL programming class. This class is for COMPLETE beginners who have never programmed before. I have used, in the past, PHP4: A Beginner's Guide and PHP for the World Wide Web (Visual Quicktart). (I will be using PHP4, at least until the Redhat Enterprise Server upgrades :)
However, both of these books, while being well pitched towards beginners, also assume that register_globals is enabled, and while the former is more like a textbook (it has exercises and mini-quizzes) it doesn't do as good a job with the examples as the latter (which has no exercises). My students are distance education students, so little things like variable scopes can be very time consuming to help them with-- it would be nice if the text got it right :) Does a book for complete beginners exist that also demonstrates basic good programming practices, has decent examples, and perhaps exercises/quizzes (not as important as the first two)? c -- Chris Lott -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
