On Apr 28, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Cate Serino wrote:
Hi Trilug members,
Let me begin that, I am a instructor and want to prepare my students in
the best way for the market place. I have the opprotunity to teach
either VB.net or PHP. Any thoughts on either platform. I know that I am
speaking to a bias crowd, but please keep you comments to your thoughts
about the market place. Meaning do you think that the positions in
either PHP or vb.net will grow. Also any recomendations for books for
PHP. Any help would be great.
Many thanks,
Cate Serino
First some links:
Free online/PDF versions of PHP books:
http://www.phptr.com/content/images/013147149X/downloads/ 013147149X_book.pdf (this is a good book, but maybe not if PHP is your first language)
http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/
Some other links: http://www.onlamp.com/php/
Some simple searches of job sites will return many more VB or Visual Basic listings than PHP. That said Oracle and IBM are both supporters of PHP and I wouldn't be surprised to see much more in the way of Oracle PHP projects. With PHP 5 you have many new features/concepts that make it more interesting as a language.
John
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