That's a darn good point: especially since I end up hacking together
PHP/MySQL apps day-to-day all the time. I know that when I presented the
options of Java or C++ (with OpenGL), PHP/MySQL web apps or Cocoa Touch iOS
apps to my students, they were absolutely least interested in PHP/MySQL.
But... it's what actually gets the job done most of the time.
One thing that we've batted around in our department is pushing our web
design class towards learning enough PHP and CSS to write WordPress plugins
for our school blog server. There are _lots_ of good authentic learning
projects to be had with a LAMP stack.
-- S
Seth Battis / http://battis.net / seth@battis.net / @battis / (323) 638-7384
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Bill Fitzgerald <dwfitzgerald@yahoo.com>wrote:
> After reading through the entire thread, I'm a little amazed to see that no
> one has recommended teaching PHP.
>
> Given the amount of work that exists around PHP-based web apps, and the
> fact that people can use basic PHP knowledge to connect with open source
> communities that offer resources that mot individual schools can never
> match, it seems like a no-brainer.
>
> Is this just an oversight, or are there reasons for this?
>
> And please, no "Language X is better for reason Y" responses -
> spaghetti/insecure code can be written in anything, and elegant code can be
> written in anything.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
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> From:James Gapp <jgapp@harborday.org>
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> Sent:Friday, December 3, 2010 3:48:40 PM
> Subject:Programming
>
> I was wondering if anyone had some ideas for teaching programming. In the
> past I taught Basic and Pascal - but these are a little out of date. SO
> because not programmed for a while is there a good resource to learn them
> and WHICH should I start with C, C+?????
>
>
> Thus far I have found "scratch" which is certainly good but maybe too
> elementary.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --James
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