Learning a programming language is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while, and I’ve finally got around to picking up some instructional books on PHP. From my uni course I already know programming basics, but I don’t think it’s until you really dive into a language and start doing real projects that you really get a feel for it and start to learn about the principles of good coding.
So why did I choose PHP? Web design has always interested me, so it was an easy choice to pick PHP which is mainly used for web development. It is a scripting language, but it should be easy enough to switch from PHP to a true programming language in the future if I want to. There are lots of things wrong with PHP, but I get the impression that these only really become apparent if you’re doing complex and demanding projects rather than simple scripts.
Hopefully, my first projects will be a few WordPress plugins. That’s another reason why I chose PHP – it will allow me to extend this blog to a greater degree and customize it how I want. There are loads of plugins available for WordPress already, but there are a few that I’d like to have which aren’t available. I’ll definitely be keeping things simple to start with, but in the future I’ve got a few exciting ideas for new plugins that will hopefully make this website a bit different from all the other blogs out there! If you have any ideas for plugins that you think I could code then let me know – I’m looking out for good projects that I can get started on straight away.