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PHP In the Books

One of my goals this year is to learn as many new languages as possible.  My goal for the first 6 months of the 2018 year is to learn PHP, C# (along with the .NET framework), and Python.

Well I've completed the first one, PHP, which stands for Hypertext Preprocesser.  This was a lot easier than expected after going through the tutorials on w3schools.com - and it has some similarities to VBScript in Microsoft's Classic ASP.

It only took me about 4 days to learn and I created some of my own test pages with success!  Now I'm not saying I'm an expert at PHP but I could definitely develop a fully functional website in PHP within a couple of days.  The code seems to be a little more efficient than VBscript as well.

I'm hoping to teach what I've learned in PHP with a group like Toastmasters.

I'm still in the process of learning C# and .NET; there's much more to learn than with PHP, and I'll be starting on Python soon!

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