Re: Working more efficiently in PHP

Geoff Berrow posted in comp.lang.php:

Message-ID: <Xns9AEBD46AD7876mblistssanDotrrcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Mark
A. Boyd contained the following:

And it seems to me that
learnin' PHP would be far easier than trying to, somehow, memorize it. I
just don't see how flash cards are beneficial here.

I had a quick look through the first few before I got bored. I haven't
committed the entire PHP function set to memory, nor do I intend to. It
may be useful to me if I could remember the difference between implode
and explode but it's no big deal if the manual is just a click away.

You're right in that while learning the language, much of it does get
committed to memory. I tend to think that happens through usage, learning
from mistakes, and especially manual lookups rather memorization by rote.

I should add lurking in newsgroups and using dejanews.com to look up past
newsgroup threads. Kudos to the regulars in this newsgroup for pointing me
down the path of learning for a fair bit of my PHP knowledge.

Still, there are many styles of learnin' and this one seems to be targeting
people who don't learn easily via manuals, classrooms, example scripts, and
tutorials/videos. Maybe they've found a market.

I do think they should be consitant. And Twayne's suggestion that "other
methods are available" for many of the answers is a very good idea - perhaps
with links to other flash cards, articles on the site or the PHP docs
themselves. If done well, and if there's a significant number of people who
learn better with flash cards, then all power to them!*


* And as Twayne implied, perhaps a different domain name would be better -
unless YoYoBrain gets big enough to be a widely recognized brand - which may
be a goal.


--
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)
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