Hello Manuel,
I have just re-read this, and am conscious that I am appearing to disagree with you,
too frequently, yet in
overview I am wanting to agree!? I am a consultant, and I am well used to playing
devil's advocate, ie
disagreeing with what is being said, in order to arrive at the best
In order to make a living as a programmer, unless you can seriously wow your
potential employers with raw ability, it's difficult to make any real money
unless you have a little piece of paper that says Look what I can do!
I've been programming in PHP, Perl, ASP, Java, Visual Basic, C and C++ to
I agree about going to technical colleges and other areas. In fact, I made
that very point. There is no reason that these kinds of programs even NEED
to be four year degrees.
I don't want to get into a debate about certifications. As one who hires
programmers, I can say this for myself and many
Hello,
Dl Neil wrote:
One good point about what you said is that one budgetless what to
promote PHP is to use 'viral marketing'. Viral marketing is a way to
market something by using a technique that spreads by itself, ie, no
additional effort or money needed to be spent by the
Computer science is considered an engineering discipline in most
institutions. And I think that's good... we need people out there to develop
OS's, create database servers, etc. PHP can be effectively used in this
curriculum, but C seems a lot more to the point.
The place where PHP could (and
Hello Manuel,
One other dimension, the institutions can only offer classes in the languages (and
techniques/technologies)
that
the trainers know and than they have the resources (hardware,
compilers/interpreters) to cover.
Maybe therein lies an answer to the 'marketing' side too. The
Hello,
Dl Neil wrote:
One other dimension, the institutions can only offer classes in the languages (and
techniques/technologies) that
the trainers know and than they have the resources (hardware,
compilers/interpreters) to cover.
Maybe therein lies an answer to the 'marketing' side too.
. Here we have several servers and
dozens of courses on computer science. No server is PHP ready and no course
instructor knows anything about PHP. Why do you think this is happening? I
really like PHP and I am using it in my personal website to work with some
text files and a small database
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Computer Science and PHP
Hmm, well I'm 20 years removed from college at this point, but I can
relate somewhat to the issue ... the tail end of my college
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Subject: [PHP] Computer Science and PHP
I am a student in a college in NY
I am a student in a college in NY state. Here we have several servers and
dozens of courses on computer science. No server is PHP ready and no course
instructor knows anything about PHP. Why do you think this is happening? I
really like PHP and I am using it in my personal website to work
Why PHP is so not popular in the computer science teaching area?
Well, here at RMIT in Melbourne Australia they're teaching all
the first year students PHP...
Jason
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Subject: [PHP] Computer Science and PHP
I am a student in a college in NY state. Here we have several servers and
dozens of courses on computer science. No server is PHP ready and no course
instructor knows anything about PHP. Why do you think this is happening? I
really like
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