Mark, One thing that you might want to consider is to just get the book you think is best and has the most solid content and then build your ciriculum around certain chapters. It shouldn't be hard to have a student read a chapter a night or even two chapters over the course of a week. Most of the "Teach Yourself..." books are designed to have a chapter read at one time and strengthen one particular concept.
If your students will be purchasing their books, having the extra reference info will be good for them as well. While you probably won't want to discuss a chapter on GD if your course is intro-level, I'm sure that a lot of students will be interested in creating graphics dynamically and will benefit from having a more comprehensive reference book instead of having to go out and buy one or two more books after the course than having a book that covers everything from the beginning - even if the course doesn't cover every chapter. Just my $.02 -Mike -----Original Message----- From: Mark McCulligh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Good PHP Books Hi Other PHP Users, I have been asked to teach an introduction course on PHP/MySQL at my local College. I am looking for a good beginner book for the course. Like most people I learned PHP from php.net and online tutorials. But I need a book for the course. I am looking for a book that is not too long also. Around 500-600 pages would be great. I can't give my students 150 pages every night to read, for books like "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson even know they are great they are just to long. It is only a 35 hour course for only can cover the basics. Plus something that covers version 4.2 or greater. I don't want to teach them old syntax. If anyone knows for a good beginner book, please let me know, thanks. Mark. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
