NYCPHP Meetup

[Peter Simard]

Just weighing in;

Somewhere  I heard that certification simply means one knows enough to
do  damage.  More than anything, it shows you know how to learn, which
is a positive in and of itself.

Personally I found PHP made more sense, and was easier to employ after
I  learned  to  program in JAVA.  Prior to that I could use PHP, but I
really was deficient in a whole slew of areas.

So,  if certification comes around, great, but barring that, if PHP is
the main base of ones knowledge, I'd suggest learning JAVA, or C++, or
any  strongly  typed  language for that matter, leaning more to OOP if
possible.

PHP  is  so  forgiving  in  that it dynamically types everything, it's
incredibly easy to make an error and hunt around for hours looking for
it,   where  if  one  was  more familiar with a stricter language, one
might expend much less effort, and hair, in those situations.

Just my .31 cents ( adjusted for inflation )....
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 Peter                            
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