Books and tutorials for beginners in Java and PHP

Question

hi mi name is Carlos i'm from guatemala, i need help, I am a beginner in the programming and I need good books to be able to associate with the programming. you could help me, the language that strikes me is php and java for connections to DB

Answer 1

I would read the Java tutorials. Books cost money, the internet is free!

Answer 2

For PHP: http://www.amazon.com/MySQL-PHP-Database-Applications-Greenspan/dp/0764535374

For Java: http://www.amazon.com/Java-Database-Programming-Brian-Jepson/dp/0471165182

Answer 3

I'd recommend the online PHP tutorial and the book Head First Java. They're both great for beginning programmers.

Update: I also recently picked up Head First PHP and MySQL, and it's pretty good. Definitely worth it to look at the online preview to see if you can learn anything from it.

Answer 4

Beginning PHP on apress, is pretty good.

on Amazon

Answer 5

"Thinking Java" is a great book on Java and you can download then whole thing for free

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/

Answer 6

These threads should get you started:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3088/best-ways-to-teach-a-beginner-to-program

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4769/easiest-language-to-start-with

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22873/language-bookstutorials-for-popular-languages

PS: It's always a good idea to search a bit before asking a Q :)

Answer 7

change your question subject to be your question. Like "Recommend some good beginning PHP and Java books".

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language_(book)

Learn C. Once you learn C, Java/PHP/C#/etc become a lot easier to grasp. Plus you will be learning how to do a lot of things manually and making a lot of important mistakes. You will be able to intelligently discuss the benefits and drawbacks of garbage collection, object orientation, and a lot of other techniques others take for granted.

Answer 9

The PHP documentation at http://docs.php.net is actually one of the best resources for learning PHP by example.

Once you get a basic understanding of the language, download a few open source PHP projects and see how they function. Hands-on hacking is the best tutorial in my opinion.

Answer 10

Thinking Java is a great book, for PHP the documentation online and this book online http://hudzilla.org/phpwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page.

Answer 11

Move on to this PHP book: http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781590599099 as soon as possible, it'll introduce you to concepts that will stand you in good stead for any modern language and will teach you good habits early. Welcome to the club!

Answer 12

I personally liked php architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide for PHP and SCJP Exam for J2SE 5 for Java.

THE book for Java, once you get past the syntax and concepts, is definitely Effective Java.

Answer 13

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