looking to get a head start

tyson87

Hello all, im starting a new course in computing in sept. im looking to get a little bit of a head start on some of the programming. i was wondering if anyone has any good ideas where to start? this is what ill be doing come sept. C#, HTML, PHP, Javascript, and mySQL. im ok with HTML but as for the rest there pretty much new. anyways, if anyone has any good tips/books/tutorials for starting off i would be happy to here themcheers

Ri_Nollaig

PHP/Javascript might be a good start if you already fimilar with HTML.
Dont know of any sites off hand but im sure entering either name followed by tutorial into google will return A LOT of hits. w3c.org is probably a good start.

You could probably start by making some very small PHP scripts with some Javascript for the client side, follow this up then with dynamic content loaded from a MySQL DB.
End result is you could make a small messageboard/facebook style site, maybe even the next twitter (actually, please dont...)

C# .NET can be used just like PHP for stuff like this (server side code) or for creating client applications. Microsoft would have loads of tutorials and guides on the msdn sites.

chakotha

It looks like the course has a web slant.

Look up PHP and MySQL tutorials. Using PHP to accept data form a web form and insert it into a database. And selecting records from a database according to user choice and displaying on a web page. Plus editing records.

To do it properly you probably should install Apache, PHP and MySQL on your machine manually.

If you just want to get up and running quickly you can download XAMPP which contains Apache, PHP and MySQL and has a Windows installer which will do all of that for you and you are ready to go.

Just double click on XAMPP on the desktop and start Apache. Then browse to http://localhost/ and that is your starting page.

For a test page and to see where things go, open a text editor and insert the following:

<?php
echo("Hello world!");
?>

save as hello.php into C:\xampp\htdocs

Then access in the browser at http://localhost/hello.php

And you can go on from there learning more PHP syntax before accessing a MySQL database.

Kidchameleon

These two sites have some great newb programming stuff...

http://www.functionx.com/csharp/


http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/index.html


Good Luck!

tyson87

thanks all! got stuck into C#.. dunno y just did! thanks again!

Atomic Pineapple

http://www.w3schools.com/

is good for the more web orientated stuff

tyson87

draffodx wrote: »

http://www.w3schools.com/

is good for the more web orientated stuff

yea i have to say im quite impressed with it and one or two other sites that i found.. the web stuff like php seems a bit easier for some reason.. also seems like i can learn it alot faster.. just have to learn how to work with apache n the likes now.. should be fun!

thanks again!