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Originally Posted by doridori
logical mind can be developped. you gotta be patient. creative i would say is more important here.
its not hard to program. you see 12 year old's doing this all the time. its not hard to write several lines, test, fix and repeat.
the harder part, i think is designing everything out. breaking things into logical components, and building things scalable.
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There's a large difference between 'coding' and 'coding well'.
There's also a large mental step: you might *think* you're a good coder, because you don't have the skills to realise that you're actually average / below average.
PHP is an OK choice to learn on, but it neither teaches nor reinforces OOP [although this is changing w/ 5/6] nor proper structure.
However: the biggest issue with PHP and new programmers is security. Until you're proficient, you'll leave yourself, or your clients exposed.
Examples of this come up frequently on GFY.