Week 4 working process

Actually, I should write down something two days before. Dam... network servicing!

During these three days, I started to learn PHP and MySQL. Although both are quite difficult, I think they are considerably advanced and professional for website design, and they can realise many things which other software cannot do.

At first, I read something general resouces about PHP such the histroy of PHP, the characteristics of PHP, running elements and installation & software test. All of these can make me more interesting in my later study. However, I got a problem. While Tim have told me the web which provides PHP and MySQL download and confirmed both can work in Windows XP system, I do not know how to let PHP run when I have installed it. I wanna ask Tim again in next class.

The second thing which I am doing now makes me crazy! I began to learn the grammar structure of PHP, including character string, constant and variable, operator, array, sentence and object & function. So horrible! I have less foundation of JAVA, C or .Net (I just learn a little basic skill in C++). Therefor, it is quite difficult for me to know the meaning of teaching material. I try to record what I have read and remember some simple content such as time show, some symbols, "define,do,bar" sentences and so on. I have learned a small part of the grammar structure of PHP. I think it is impossible to know everything in a short time. I will try to read all of them in next several days and do some deep research if I want to realize something which I need during the process of my website design.