Crash course in Javascript, PHP and jQurey

Fanny Cradock

I want to spend the next few weeks introducing myself to the above languages. I'm looking for a site (or sites) that offer good beginners introduction to them.

W3C seems good. But perhaps there are better tutorial sites out there. If it's money well spent I certainly don't mind paying (lydia.com etc).

chakotha

That's a lot to learn in a few weeks!

For jQuery I'd say jQuery: Novice To Ninja is very good and covers lots of cool effects but it assumes basic knowledge of JavaScript and intermediate HTML/CSS. You can get a PDF version if you are in a hurry.

It doesn't cover the server-side handling of Ajax requests so work through a few online tutorials in PHP/Ajax and MySQL.

Fanny Cradock

Yeah, perhaps I'm aiming a little high there. :pac:

I'd be happy to get a handle of the basic concepts in that time.

W3Cschools will get you going with PHP and javascript. As jQuery is a javascript framework, maybe wait until you understand the basic javascript syntax, how it can manipulate the DOM, AJAX techniques etc before tacking jQuery.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805531 is a decent javascript book. O'Reilly also do some great PHP books, and Packt can be relied on for up to date jQuery books.

Fanny Cradock

Good advice there. I actually have this O'Reilly book but I've found getting past page 10 difficult. I guess it never engaged me.

donbon

Here's some great free resources for beginners. These 2 series are both by Jeffery Way the editor of Nettuts, He's very good at explaining the fundamental concepts for beginners and focuses on writing out usable code examples from the get-go. I find this method more accessible and practical than a more theoretical approach to begin with.

http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/jquery-for-absolute-beginners-video-series/

http://blog.themeforest.net/screencasts/diving-into-php-video-series/

S.M.B.

Sitepoints Javascript course is just $9.99 on learnable (their separate e-learning site that didn't really kick off)

The PHP/MySQL one is $25 which seems steep enough.

https://learnable.com/courses/javascript-programming-for-the-web-40

Fanny Cradock

Very helpful. Thanks guys.