How easy is it for a person who knows nothing about coding to learn PHP by themselves?

March 20th, 2010 by admin


If you can dedicate yourself to it, you can learn pretty much any language in 6 months or so, maybe less. If you are reading one chapter a night, that is a different story. There is no substitute for hands on development work. Think of something you would like to do and then work towards that, not just follow exercises in a tutorial. As a previous poster said, a bit of knowledge of SQL server may not be a bad idea either. Good luck!

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3 Responses to “How easy is it for a person who knows nothing about coding to learn PHP by themselves?”

  1. Peter K Says:
    March 20th, 2010 at 11:53 pm

    I’d say it would take about a year to get to any sort of standard at PHP starting from "hello world". Don’t forget to learn SQL too because they go hand in hand.
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  2. tech_geek Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 12:31 am

    If you can dedicate yourself to it, you can learn pretty much any language in 6 months or so, maybe less. If you are reading one chapter a night, that is a different story. There is no substitute for hands on development work. Think of something you would like to do and then work towards that, not just follow exercises in a tutorial. As a previous poster said, a bit of knowledge of SQL server may not be a bad idea either. Good luck!
    References :

  3. darkwisher Says:
    March 21st, 2010 at 12:45 am

    It really depends on the person, while some are slow learners they can take a bit of time, compared to fast learners, they can learn it really easily.

    I learned PHP in a few months, and I consider myself a fast learner.

    Maybe head to your public library, check out some books on PHP.

    Even look up "PHP tutorials" on google, and you’ll fine multple.
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