Re: FN-FORUM: FW: Arrays

date posted 17th January 2006 14:06

Haydyn Phillips wrote:

>Im just curios as to what people do, as im a digital artist im trying my
>hardest to learn my sql php e.t.c but its sooooo hard as all I do all day is
>design things. But any hints or tips as how to become technically proficient
>are always welcome!
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The main things you need are the ability ot analyse things logically, a
very close eye for detail and lots and lots of practice. The more you do
the more you learn. For the first few years you are rubbish and then you
start to get the hang of it. There are so many important things to
consider but among the big ones are separating design, logic and
content, so that you can change any one without breaking the others,
writing code so it is easy to read because once it has been written you
will need to go back and work out what it did and other people may also
need to and always checking the documentation for your chosen language
if you are even slightly unsure of how to do something. Write comments,
document everything and generally do all the things that people say you
should do but sound like they are probably a big waste of time and not
as important as writing code...

Learn to use a real programming language ( rather than a single purpose
language like PHP or SQL ) and you may find it easier to apply the
principles going back to web or database scripting- I would think Ruby
is quite an easy language to learn with, but you can do it with pretty
much anything.

-ben