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Thank you for the kind words. There are so many PHP tutorials out there that just thinking about it makes my head spin. Most don't teach things from the very beginning though. They try to teach everything at once, and I want to make a difference in that area. I want to make programming fun again, like it was when I was growing up. You didn't have to learn 4 languages, 2 IDEs, and 50 APIs at the same time. You could get the basics down very quickly. Soon I will start integrating PHP and MySQL, and even without HTML you will start to understand how to create menus. Don't stop learning, - Stede

Thanks for looking at my site. I agree somewhat, and may have to have a different, or alternative tutorial. My gut tells me to go in this direction, and I thought I would give it a try. The resources you provide are awesome, and I love the TOC of Tuxradar. My site is just beginning, so I hope to offer much for newbies and experienced programmers alike. - Stede

My guide is a little different. You can get to it from my signature and let me know what you think. Thanks again for your advice and the links. - Stede

Nothing wrong with that approach. Everyone has different ways of learning. I don't think one size fits all. I must disagree about traditional college though. I find programmers who learned on their own have a much deeper knowledge than kids that just graduated. Just my opinion though. - Stede College's skims over industry technologies so you have a basic working knowledge of how it operates, it knows that it can't teach you the expertise you gain through industry work. That said though, I never understood as why they never explained their decisions: When I got DB design they told me to ALWAYS use an ID, they never told me that ID was a surrogate key or what a natural key was and why I should not use it? We didn't ask as we didn't knew what to ask for? They also went over the different normal forms as defined by Codd in a single lesson, to be applied nowhere... Everyone's DB design was always fine, a few books later taught me that those DB designs were not fine and actually never even reached NF3 and contained UPDATE-anomalies. Or when you approached them with a more advanced topic (OOA&D) they told you to wait a few more semesters as it's covert somewhere in the course, and when they do decide to give you some introduction you can poke holes in their explanation. Or why allow anyone who has a very limited working knowledge on a certain subject, teach this subject? All kinds of question marks popped up above my head when the teacher wrote position: right; and when I pointed out the typo, I was told that what was on the projected image was correct?? I had to involve W3C to prove my point. On the final exam we were told that we could not edit any of the given code, that is all fine by me if it weren't that it contained some typo's. I think it would be better if teachers communicated their decisions more. PHP was taught using the global keyword as a standard... I scratch my head and wonder why? All rant, don't bother reading.. posted it because I didn't wanted to delete it all because it had IMO some good points. This was a great post. Thank you. - Stede

What an adorable dog.

On the topic of Mini laptops, would you trade in your netbook for a iPad? I must admit to liking my Acer netbook. I don't use anything but a command shell with big fonts. I can't imagine using Windows on it. - Stede

Stick with what you are doing or move to Flash, but don't bother with Java. Is there a reason you didn't use Flash to begin with? - Stede

Maybe I don't fully understand the question, but you just called a function within a function with your example code. Function Two() called function One(), which is inside function Two(). I hope this helps, - Stede

Sad, but true.

Welcome to the wonderful world of HTML and CSS browser compatibility. Should you be doing a tutorial on HTML and CSS if you can't figure this out yourself?

Nothing wrong with that approach. Everyone has different ways of learning. I don't think one size fits all. I must disagree about traditional college though. I find programmers who learned on their own have a much deeper knowledge than kids that just graduated. Just my opinion though. - Stede

I started a free, unique PHP tutorial, which you can find in my signature below. My question is for newbies. With so many great resources on learning PHP, would yet another PHP course be useful? Also, what is your biggest problem with beginning tutorials online? Thanks for your help, - Stede

For the most part, computers can do nothing simultaneously. Each action comes before the other. What is your desired output?