Monday, May 24, 2010

What would tell a fellow worker to learn first, PHP or ASP tha has no prior programming?

I think ASP. Without any prior programming experience like C+, PHP can be tough. ASP concepts can be learned easier. Thoughts?

What would tell a fellow worker to learn first, PHP or ASP tha has no prior programming?
I don't know ASP but I'm pretty proficient in PHP. Its really the only language I know and it didn't take me long to learn it. The only previous programming exprience I had was HTML which really isn't programming at all.





One of the things I like about PHP is the amount of support available online.





So, through my experience, I learned PHP pretty easily.
Reply:I purchased PHP and MySQL Web Development by Welling and Thomson and it is a great beginners book learning how to use both PHP and MySQL and put it all together. For any advanced questions I had I would turn to Google search and almost always find my answer there. Report It

Reply:You could call your University.
Reply:I recommend PHP. PHP can be installed on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer so that a developer can practice and test their scripts without having to upload them to a remote server.





It is open source, so it is free.





And PHP is growing bigger in popularity all the time.





It's also very easy to learn and most webhosting providers have PHP pre-installed on their servers, so it's very ubiquitous.
Reply:That depends upon the technology that your business uses. If you're in a primarily Microsoft shop, go with ASP. If you're mostly open source, go with PHP.





BTW, PHP is very simple, even for newbies. It stands for Personal Home Page and was initially developed to assist the neophyte in setting up a small personal web server on Apache. It's grown well beyond that scope of course, but is still a simple language to learn.
Reply:ASP!!!


its microsoft's man


It has to be the simplest of all


i have seen both and i am telling u ASP is easier than PHP and once u learn ASP ur people can master JSP in lesser time than they would do after PHP so thats a plus point
Reply:I personally think PHP is easier. I know it has better documentation and community support on the web since it is an open source project. However, doing fancier things that require modules, etc. can be difficult if you only have Windows based servers... But, for learning web technologies, PHP is the way to go.
Reply:definitely, php is easy to learn and you will gain experience which will be useful to learn ASP.


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