[ILUG] Linux Summer Course for Secondary Students

[adam beecher]

>  It should be pointed out that the Python website has teaching
> materials on it[0]. It's very very easy to make a course for it. It's
> certainly written for easying people into programming. PHP is
> also quite good, it's only big fault for learners is that the API
> is huge. Anything that can give you signal 11's (C) or usually
> looks like line noise (perl) is bad for beginners ;)
>
Funny you should use the line noise bit:
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/10PerlMyths.html#Perl_looks_like_line_noise
:)

>  BTW, is there a PHP tutorial type thing or what ?
>
There's one on the PHP site itself, although it might be a bit basic:
http://www.php.net/tut.php3
(One of the annoying things about php.net is the fact that they don't link
to half the stuff on there. There's also an excellent books page, I think at
/books.php3)

Other places to look are:
http://www.webmonkey.com
http:///www.devshed.com
http://www.phpbuilder.com

and less so:

http://www.zend.com

HTH,
adam