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I am trying to learn as many languages as I can between school, work, and a relationship... I am hoping to have a long list of good material to get me started. I personally feel that hands-on is the best method but I would love to have a topic with suggestions and ideas of other methods people have done and which books/sites you found to be most useful.
Before I get flamed... I am aware that I could spend my day on Google finding peoples opinions on the matter; I'm sure I could search through all of codecall and I would get some hefty results. For the sake of simplicity and newcomers, it would be nice to have one topic to go through to find these answers. Also, I would like to have it more up-to-date than the older content you would find on the web. Please note, I am using the term languages freely here, so please don't get upset because I am saying HTML, CSS, or Regex is a language….
Enough on that, back on topic...
These are the sites/books that I have found useful when I was teaching myself. I am only posting languages (lets not be picky about using the term languages here… ;) ) that I consider myself to excel in.
PHP
Sites:
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor - There is no better reference that the php.net site.
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - A decent reference site and very useful when starting out.
Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool - Fun site for testing code samples, works with multiple different languages
Books:
Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide - I found this book to be very useful and recommend it
Essential PHP Security - This book is a must read for anyone working with PHP.
PHP and MySQL for Dummies - For beginners this book is decent… personally, I wasn't a fan...
HTTP Developer's Handbook - Not really specific for PHP but worth a read.
MySQL
Sites:
MySQL :: The world's most popular open source database - Goes without saying…
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - A decent reference site and very useful when starting out.
Books:
PHP and MySQL for Dummies - Since I work mostly with PHP this seemed to be decent for beginners
AJAX
Sites:
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - A decent reference site and very useful when starting out.
Javascript
Sites:
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - A decent reference site and very useful when starting out.
Books:
Javascript for Dummies - Found it to be useful for beginners
HTML
Sites:
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - A decent reference site and very useful when starting out.
HTML Goodies - Useful for beginners and novices
Books:
HTML for Dummies - If you have no clue about HTML this book would suffice
CSS
Sites:
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - A decent reference site and very useful when starting out.
Cascading Style Sheets, HTMLGoodies CSS Tutorials and Resources - Useful for beginners and novices
Regex
Books:
Mastering Regular Expressions - Great book for learning regular expressions, I highly recommend it.
I tried the * for Dummies books because I thought they would be useful. I was not impressed with them since they seemed to teach bad standards and not much about security. For beginners I find these books to be useful but try to learn standards and good practices. w3Schools is a great site for teaching yourself web basics, it's one site I find to be most useful (Tizag Tutorials is just as useful). I believe it goes without saying, that codecall is very useful for finding answers to questions and the tutorials seem to be growing. I have read many other books and visited many other sites but none worth mentioning... that I can recall. I mostly learned by hands-on and trial and error.
Please post if you have any other additions or suggestions.
Edited by SoN9ne, 14 April 2010 - 11:27 AM.
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