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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013

    RT @ebii: anyone know a good resource that teaches PHP to people that want to get into programming? Why would you do that to someone? :)

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      2. Martin Bean‏ @martinbean 15 May 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Oi! Less of that!

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @martinbean

        @martinbean Rather valid point about PHP being a bad first language to learn programming with, Martin :) Disagree?

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      4. Martin Bean‏ @martinbean 15 May 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral …It’s the principles: control structures, OOP, design patterns etc. If you learn them, then you can apply them to any language…

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @martinbean

        @martinbean Agree; and yet some languages make better teaching languages than others.

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      6. Martin Bean‏ @martinbean 15 May 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Which ones would you suggest then?

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      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @martinbean

        @martinbean Today? Probably JS with some sort of visual canvas-based environment for immediately/visually seeing results of your actions.

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      8. Martin Bean‏ @martinbean 15 May 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I think the problem with PHP is, there are *so* many bad references and tutorials and whatnot out there.

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      9. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @martinbean

        @martinbean Yep. Although that’s an issue with JS & web technologies in general.

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      2. Michael Heap‏ @mheap 15 May 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Because PHP is ubiquitous? It's easy to deploy, and it's actually quite a nice language (as of the last 18 months or so) /cc @ebii

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @mheap

        @mheap @ebii Couldn’t think of a worse language to teach as a first language though. Well, perhaps Java. :)

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      4. Michael Heap‏ @mheap 15 May 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @ebii I've just realised I'm coming at this from a web point of view. Ruby/python are other options, but gem/pip does a lot there

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @mheap

        @mheap @ebii Yeah, my comment was about the original question which was asking how to teach PHP to someone who is new to programming.

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      6. Stuart Herbert‏ @stuherbert 15 May 2013
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        @aral @mheap @ebii teach them machine code as first language, let them learn how a computer actually works

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      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @stuherbert

        @stuherbert @mheap @ebii Wow, please don’t do that unless you want to scare them away & give them entirely the wrong focus…

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      8. Stuart Herbert‏ @stuherbert 15 May 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @mheap @ebii entirely the *right* focus. This is how my generation learned, back before there were computing curriculums.

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      9. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @stuherbert

        @stuherbert @mheap @ebii Yes, and that’s why we had several decades of hardware & software that were socially inept & unusable.

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      2. Stuart Herbert‏ @stuherbert 15 May 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @ebii you're being a bit of a troll there, something I thought you normally took a stance against

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @stuherbert

        @stuherbert @ebii Nope; was a humorous comment highlighting that I don’t think teaching a newcomer PHP today is doing them a service.

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      4. Stuart Herbert‏ @stuherbert 15 May 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @ebii I think you're the only one finding it funny.

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 May 2013
        Replying to @stuherbert

        @stuherbert @ebii Awesome statistical fact if true. May qualify as unfunniest tweet of all time :)

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