I'm about to learn some basic web development this summer. Right now I'm freshening my HTML skills, then I will probably read a bit on CSS, and then some Javascript (read some of the very basics already) and some PHP. I know how to use SQL languages. Probably going to read on integrating PHP with Flash too and AJAX will be nice. Will try several simple web applications.
What's your thoughts? Any of you more experienced people at the web side thinking there is something I have to know or such? Any good tutorials you recommend? (other than w3schools, which I use as a mainsource, really good tutorials, unlike for instance the official one for Java (bad samples mostly))
Seems like your doing ok to me. Though once you have practiced those, i suggest you start an on going project. Otherwise you find your forever learning and always got small example projects you can't do anything with.
In my experience, reading books only gets you so far. You really have to dig yourself into something and just start messing around with it. I have read several PHP and ASP.NET books and they did help me get started, but you tend not to soak in all the information they give you and find yourself, more than not, forgetting what to do and always referring back to the book for what may seem like trivial things. This may not hold true for everyone, but it sure did for me.
So, for PHP anyway, what I did was just download a few sample PHP apps (for Hotscripts or maybe even PHP-Nuke) and then dugg around in the code and just modifying it to do whatever I felt like doing that day. PHP is very forgiving to new dev's and it's probably the best way to learn. For ASP.NET, I was forced to learn it for my job (within about a weeks time), so that's another good way, lol.
@Scott
I will maybe start working on some sort of small project like a simple CMS or so in some time when I've gotten a scratch on the basics. I guess making it module based would be good for learning, as I could always add new modules which could be very different and therefore offer different challenges.
@Izzmo
I know, the books and tutorials only get you that far. It's the same for me, I've been reading a lot but then when I wanted to use that I had completely forgotten how to do it
I also learn by toying around, maybe the best way to learn...?
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