[Webdev] Re: Webdev digest, Vol 1 #385 - 2 msgs

[Fintan Ryan]

Afternoon,

> Well after a few years of doing stuff in PHP I think its about time I
> learned to code properly and in a manner that will allow what I write to
> be more scabale. Has anyone (adam :-) got any tips. Of course I am doing
> Google, but just wanted to bounce it off you guys.
> 

Codeing properly is pretty much the same in any language, its just common sense. Take a look at some books like the following

The Practice Of Programming - Kernighan & Pike [1]

A bit more heavy weight, but invaluable none the less.

The Art Of Computer Programming - Donald Knuth [2]

And if your doing any OO stuff, get the O'Reilly Nutshell Guide to UML [3] and Design Patterns by the gang of four [4].

The reality is the language should be irrelevant - choose the best one for the job.

It also helps a lot to understand the OS that your working on, from a system level, best intro to this from a unix point of view is something like O'Reillys SVR4 programming intro [5].

Finally compilers, look into the something like The Dragon Book [6]

Its a bit long winded, at the very least look at The Practice Of Programming, apply what it says to php.

l8r,
Fintan

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/ 
[2] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html 
[3] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/umlnut/
[4] http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id={E1CD5BE7-E008-481B-8D0C-8E80CE9978F9}
[5] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/usp/
[6] http://www.aw.com/catalog/academic/product/1,4096,0201100886,00.html
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