Well, out with Dreamweaver and Flash(got A+ on both), on with the newest class. This month is all about PHP. Of all things... I hate programming. But I know that it is important to know how to make some changes and do some design basics (like logins)... I'm not buying the class as what it offers so far is nothing about security which in my head is a most important issue! Anyway...
The first week was a very basic introduction that allowed me to understand that I may not know PHP but I have handled similar things as i took Dbase, C++ and Cobol in the past, and I have configured/updated.maintained a UNIX server when it was all programming and nothing visual... What am I to fear? Well... The only thing to actually fear is having no access to answers because of a bad bad class lecture. And there is only so much a book can actually teach. Which has lead to students being very negative and quite insulting to anything the teacher comments... Which in turn seems very bad as the teacher does not actually make comments of the assignment but of things irrelevant in the given exercises... Bad cycle. I even got a bite from a fellow student because I helped her... Lovely.
Second week was about creating a crash site, creating a form and validating it. So I went with it, created a fake site and created the forms. Hopefully through the next weeks we will get to develop the PHP to make a login work, and for other purposes... We'll see... i am not convinced that this will be a learning experience. Classmates and teacher are too defensive and acting like high school brats. And I know they are all beyond the 25's...
All in all, everything is interesting in its own way. i keep gathering information that I add to this blog's links, so I have a good resource for my works. I am pondering what to do when I finish this in August... I am attracted to Motion Animation and will do some research on what to do to work doing that. Another story, another time.
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