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Why PHP is a good first language to learn

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:48:16 GMT

Introduction

Hello world, I would like to start with what php is Incase you don’t know. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It is a server side language ie it’s a type of language that processes your form when you submit or that redirect when you are not logged in, though a server side language does way more than that.

PHP is actually very simple and beginner friendly and I actually learnt it as my first language but still I wouldn’t recommend it as a first programming language to learn.

What does not make a good first language

Language with complex and long syntax
Writing very long code for everything
Hard concepts like C’s pointers
Statically typed.

Etc

The above are traits of a bad beginner first language unless you have a super interest in learning coding like me you can opt for a language like c, c++ etc thathas this traits. Else you’ll loose the little interest you have left.

What makes a good language

Short and easy syntax like php
Write short codes for simple tasks and not too long code for complex tasks
Simple concepts
Dynamically types ie declaring a variable without specifying whether it’s a string, float, Boolean etc.

The above are attributes of a good beginner first language and guess what PHP has all these attributes and even more. Then why did I say it’s bad?

Why PHP is great as a first language for beginner

People often have poor decisions in the past, such as enabling magic quotes (which automatically escape post, get and cookie vars with backslashes, sometimes leading to confusion) and register globals (get, post, cookie and some other vars get automatically registered on the global scope) by default. These two are also often used as general attacks on PHP – which I really don’t understand. Sure, they aren’t exactly good things, but you can disable them.

Some also say that PHP’s builtin functions don’t really follow any conventions, which is not true at all. It may not follow a specific convention 100% strictly, but it does not make it a worse language as it’s more than enough similar for most parts.

Most often said, People say it is very easy to write bad codes in PHP, I totally agree with that but what’s bad in writing bad codes if you are just a beginner 🤷‍♂️. I highly recommend learning php. It’ll simple make you more interested in programming and set you up for languages you’ll be considering in the future.

PHP is just perfect for you

With the points made, I would say PHP is definitely a perfect language for beginners looking to get into web development/programming.

PHP is not a complex language, not even close to complex. It’s quite easy to use and understand, but it still has the features of a “real” programming language like Object Oriented Programming. It can be an easy beginner’s language, but it also provides you room for learning new things.

PHP has a huge library of built in functions and classes that make almost all tasks very easy to do. Read the contents of a file? Sure – $myvar = filegetcontents(‘myfile.txt’); – Now, do it in C…

And thanks to the above points and the fact that you can embed PHP in HTML, it’s very easy to make something that you can feel proud of. Just throw together some HTML and PHP, host it and you can show everyone what cool stuff you’ve made.

And finally, PHP is a very popular language! If you learn PHP, you can be sure that you can find employment coding it as above 70% web apps run php as backend and it’s been used by tech moguls like Facebook, yahoo, wordpress etc.

Conclusion

Don’t let anyone mislead you, if you’re considering web development, PHP is your guy, you can learn online or hire a guy like me to reach you. For feed back or questions. Email me at samahd626@gmail.com. Thanks for reading and best of luck with your career.

What you'll find here

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 05:32:29 GMT

Introduction

Hello, My name is samahd. I’m a Software developer. This is my first blog post and I’ll love to tell you about what you’ll find here. Enjoy.

What I will be Posting about

1. JavaScript

Right now my favorite language is JavaScript and I will be be talking about it a lot on this blog.

What is JavaScript

JavaScript is the language of the browser and it is often abbreviated as JS. JavaScript is a Programming Language for the Web. JavaScript can update and change both HTML and CSS. JavaScript can calculate, manipulate and validate data. Learn more about this language in upcoming posts. I will also be writing about some of it’s frameworks like React, React Native, Vue JS, etc.

sample code: Hello world in JS

document.write("Hello world!");

2. PHP

My favorite back-end language.

What is PHP

PHP stands for Hypertext Processor and yeah the P stands for PHP. PHP is a widely-used, open source scripting language. PHP scripts are executed on the server that is PHP is a server side language. PHP is free to download and use. It is used by big companies like Facebook, WordPress, etc. It is easy enough to be a beginner’s first server side language though I would not recommend that. Learn why in my Next post.🤓

sample code: hello world in php

<?php
echo "Hello world";
?>

3. Python

The Latest

What is Python

Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. Python’s simple, easy to learn syntax emphasizes readability and therefore reduces the cost of program maintenance. Python supports modules and packages, which encourages program modularity and code reuse. The Python interpreter and the extensive standard library are available in source or binary form without charge for all major platforms, and can be freely distributed. Python can be used to build desktop apps, write back-end code, even create mobile apps though I won’t recommend that.

sample code: hello world in python

print("Hello world")

4. Golang

My dreams of working at Google

What is Golang

Go or GoLang, as it is called, is a robust system-level language used for programming across large-scale network servers and big distributed systems. Golang emerged as an alternative to C++ and Java for the app developers in the context of what Google needed for its network servers and distributed systems.

sample code: hello world in Golang

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
    fmt.Println("hello world")
}

5. Typescript

My alternative to JS

What is Typescript

TypeScript is an open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. The goal of TypeScript is to help catch mistakes early through a type system and to make JavaScript development more efficient.

sample code: hello world in Typsescript

let message:string = "Hello World"
alert(message)

Conclusion

This is a shortlist of what I’ll be posting here as I will also be talking about development environment and tools like the VSCode, Dockers, Git, Postman, NPM, etc. I hope you’ve gotten an overview of what this blog is about. thanks for reading, If you have any problems please send me a feedback by clicking on the chat head or by sending an email: samahd626@gmail.com. Thank you 😁.