NYCPHP Meetup

[John Lacey]

David Mintz wrote:
> This is good good good, gentlemen, keep it coming (-:
> 

I make it a habit to purchase every book by the authors who are active 
on this list.  It would seem that my next purchase will probably be 
Chris Shifflet's security book when it hits.  Adam's "Upgrading to PHP 
5" is in the mail.

Having over 15,000 hours on the floor teaching technical subjects, 
assembler, operating systems, networking, and a few high-level languages 
on the way, I normally would not recommend an O'Reilly book for 
beginners -- read beginners.  The exception would be if the book is 
accompanied by a clearly written student wookbook that roughly parallels 
the text material.  It has to do with O'Reilly's style--and I'm talking 
typography, overall format and busyness.  I would use David Sklar's 
"Learning PHP 5" book along with a a student workbook, and I may write 
my next course using it.

That said, there is a little known book for beginners that I would 
recommend.  It's called "PHP by Example" and the author is Toby Butzon. 
  It is published by Que.

John