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by Robin Nixon

Build real-world PHP skills in less than an hour per lesson--online video tutorials included! " 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development" provides easy-to-follow lessons that use text, sample exercises, and video for the entry-level PHP programmer. Each lesson is designed to take you less than an hour to complete. All the basics of PHP through to more advanced topics, including data handling, web forms, security, cookies, and Ajax, are covered. This practical guide also introduces just enough of the additional technologies and techniques--like HTML and JavaScript--needed to complete the lessons. One-hour lessons teach practical techniques that can be applied immediately Wrap ups contain a summary, tips for further study, and self-test questions Online video accompanying each lesson offer valuable, step-by-step instruction

Paperback

First published January 27, 2015

About the author

Robin has over 30 years experience of writing software, and developing websites and apps. He also has an extensive history of writing about computers and technology, with a portfolio of over 500 published magazine articles and almost 30 books, many of which have been translated into other languages. He is also a prolific Internet video course instructor.

As well as IT, his interests include motivational psychology (which he also writes about), artificial intelligence research, many types of music (both playing and listening to), playing and creating board games, and enjoying good food and drink .

Robin lives on the south-east coast of England (where he writes full time), along with his five children and wife, Julie (a trained nurse and university lecturer). Between them they also foster three disabled children.

Reviews

[Joshua Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone who usually relies on documentation or video courses to learn a new programming language, I must say this book was well written. Nixon lays a foundation of core programming fundamentals using the PHP syntax and moves into more advance principles in the last portion of the book. I will keep this book handy and refer back to it regularly.

Note: I have been programming for over 4 years now and had a grasp on many of the “universal” programming fundamentals in this book. This review is not written from the view point of a beginner programmer.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

the only drawback is the lack of proper terminology definition from lesson 14 onward. The explanation on class is very difficult to follow due to, in my opinion, the amounts of terms that are not known to beginner programming learners.