Learning to Blow (PHP) Bubbles
In my most recent entry, I’d mentioned that I was working my way through the PHP For Beginners course on Laracasts. I completed the entirety of the course this past weekend, and enjoyed every bit of it. I might not have understood every bit of it, but I’m not worried about that. The more I work with it, the better I’ll get at grasping some of the concepts that eluded me.’
I’d also stated that I was going to jump into the Laravel course, but I’ve changed directions and instead, decided to follow The Laravel Path courses, in order. Currently I’m working through the Object-Oriented Principles in PHP and it’s definitely more of a challenge. I’m not a programmer (front end dev here, meaning I make things look ✨pretty ✨), so some of these concepts are having me watch the videos more than once.
I’m anxious to get to started on building the new website I have in mind, but I’ve been trying to be pragmatic and want to take the time to learn how to build it like I want to build it. I could probably create the new website with Wordpress, but there’s an odd desire to create it all, have the website be 100% of my creation. Not that I think it’ll be better, programmatically, than a site built with Wordpress, but still. I want it to be all me.
(title is alluding to learning to swim. Similar to what I did in the first post related to learning PHP. Let’s see how long I can make the swimming metaphor last.)