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Learning to Program with PHP - 3 days
For people who haven't programmed before, or want to cover the concepts and theory that the self-taught approach might have missed, try our 3 day introduction to programming with PHP
The course is intended to teach more than the syntax of the PHP
language, focussing on good programming.
It does not cover
web-programming (e.g. forms, page generation etc). It introduces the language basics -
understanding of which is essential to proper understanding of the
web-development facilities.
Pre-Requisites
None, although if you have done any previous structured PHP programming, you will probably find this course unsuitable.
Content Outline
- Algorithm design
- Generic programming terms
- PHP Language Syntax (variables, data structures, conditional statements and loops)
- Using the PHP Documentation
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Type casting and handling
- Files - reading, writing
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Common string functions
- Using lists (arrays) (stacks, queues)