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Am looking for a place in Bangkok where I can learn PHP programming from beginner level and maybe other computer skills. Am open to a degree type program as well as short term courses but haven't got a good idea where to start looking. Can anyone advise? Thanks.

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The best way is to teach yourself, this is coming from a Developer with formal education beyond 15 that now has 16 years commercial dev experience including consulting and perm stints at a number of Blue Chips. I'm 100% self taught and began back in 1999 with HTML and PHP. Teaching yourself is the right way, languages change regularly, you'll need to be learning all the time, and it's hugely important to be an autodictat.

There are loads of good books, and a wealth of support is available online via places like Stack Overflow and the Open Source community.

The first PHP book I bought was an earlier edition of http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Web-Development-Edition/dp/0672329166/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0T5X7C8DTH4V5Y7HG1VS - it is excellent but firstly you need to learn HTML and CSS. JavaScript, PHP and MySQL should come after this and being honest, these days JavaScript is the growth area - I'd focus there and not on PHP.

For getting a great start in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, these two books look like great first buys:

http://www.amazon.com/HTML-JavaScript-Sams-Teach-Yourself/dp/0672337142/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413354650&sr=1-1&keywords=html+css+and+javascript+all+in+one+sams+teach+yourself+covering+html5+css3+and+jquery
http://www.amazon.com/Web-Development-Node-Express-Leveraging/dp/1491949309/ref=sr_1_19?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413354557&sr=1-19&keywords=html+javascript+css

If you work through these thoroughly, and learn how to get answers to questions that are raised in them from places like Stack Overflow and the book support forums, you'll get a very good grounding and be well placed to build upon it.

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The best way is to teach yourself, this is coming from a Developer with formal education beyond 15 that now has 16 years commercial dev experience including consulting and perm stints at a number of Blue Chips. I'm 100% self taught and began back in 1999 with HTML and PHP. Teaching yourself is the right way, languages change regularly, you'll need to be learning all the time, and it's hugely important to be an autodictat.

There are loads of good books, and a wealth of support is available online via places like Stack Overflow and the Open Source community.

The first PHP book I bought was an earlier edition of http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Web-Development-Edition/dp/0672329166/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0T5X7C8DTH4V5Y7HG1VS - it is excellent but firstly you need to learn HTML and CSS. JavaScript, PHP and MySQL should come after this and being honest, these days JavaScript is the growth area - I'd focus there and not on PHP.

For getting a great start in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, these two books look like great first buys:

http://www.amazon.com/HTML-JavaScript-Sams-Teach-Yourself/dp/0672337142/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413354650&sr=1-1&keywords=html+css+and+javascript+all+in+one+sams+teach+yourself+covering+html5+css3+and+jquery

http://www.amazon.com/Web-Development-Node-Express-Leveraging/dp/1491949309/ref=sr_1_19?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413354557&sr=1-19&keywords=html+javascript+css

If you work through these thoroughly, and learn how to get answers to questions that are raised in them from places like Stack Overflow and the book support forums, you'll get a very good grounding and be well placed to build upon it.

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The best way is to teach yourself, this is coming from a Developer with formal education beyond 15 that now has 16 years commercial dev experience including consulting and perm stints at a number of Blue Chips. I'm 100% self taught and began back in 1999 with HTML and PHP. Teaching yourself is the right way, languages change regularly, you'll need to be learning all the time, and it's hugely important to be an autodictat.

There are loads of good books, and a wealth of support is available online via places like Stack Overflow and the Open Source community.

The first PHP book I bought was an earlier edition of http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Web-Development-Edition/dp/0672329166/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0T5X7C8DTH4V5Y7HG1VS - it is excellent but firstly you need to learn HTML and CSS. JavaScript, PHP and MySQL should come after this and being honest, these days JavaScript is the growth area - I'd focus there and not on PHP.

For getting a great start in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, these two books look like great first buys:

http://www.amazon.com/HTML-JavaScript-Sams-Teach-Yourself/dp/0672337142/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413354650&sr=1-1&keywords=html+css+and+javascript+all+in+one+sams+teach+yourself+covering+html5+css3+and+jquery

http://www.amazon.com/Web-Development-Node-Express-Leveraging/dp/1491949309/ref=sr_1_19?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413354557&sr=1-19&keywords=html+javascript+css

If you work through these thoroughly, and learn how to get answers to questions that are raised in them from places like Stack Overflow and the book support forums, you'll get a very good grounding and be well placed to build upon it.

This reply was very useful. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

A friend told me that I could get employed in programming within 8 months if I was clever. He said my math ability and memory for inputting sequences and numbers was far better than his and he is working full time as a programmer. He said if I can get trained right, I will go far. I dont know if I believe that as any good work needs time and diligence to learn. But anything is possible, sky is the limit.

I will explore the info in the reply for sure but I want to do learning with a group (as well as on my own) if possible to make the chance of employment at the end better. Im getting a commission for things my client buys in Thailand which means I have loads of free time as the only work I have to do is go to collect my commission once every month or two. I want to start doing a real job as the gap on my resume is getting wider every month.

At the moment I am falling prey to alcohol in my free time for lack of anything else to do sometimes and headache over what happens with my next visa. I want to start studying computers.

Am interested in all things computers but just never took any training. Am a total beginner. I wish I knew how to remedy things that go wrong on my PC the same as people who have been learning about computers/IT for long.

I would be open to a university or certificate/degree type course if I could find it but i have no idea where is a good school. Or a short course type group would be great too if it leads to employment of some type.

Thanks again to all who replied to my post..

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