Books related to web dev.

[hellomoto]

I'm almost finished reading Developing Large Web Applications by Kyle Loudon (2010) and it keenly reminded me of ProcessWire, and I'd thought that PW came out around then but maybe earlier... Anyway the book is somewhat outdated by now, but I found it at the library and read through most of it quickly. It does provide a solid introduction to OOP in PHP; JavaScript has changed much more, and I basically skipped the CSS part.

Are there any [maybe newer] books you would recommend?

Edited October 24, 2024 by hellomoto
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[Sanyaissues]

I'm reading Head First Design Patterns, because a recommendation of @da² in this beautiful post.

[hellomoto]

I'm slowing down reading the one I'm on now.

[szabesz]

On 10/24/2024 at 5:06 PM, hellomoto said:

Are there any [maybe newer] books you would recommend?

• https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/php-8-objects/9781484267912/
• https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/php-8-solutions/9781484271414/

[da²]

On 10/26/2024 at 12:01 AM, Sanyaissues said:

I'm reading Head First Design Patterns, because a recommendation of @da² in this beautiful post.

So what do you think about this book after some weeks?

[Sanyaissues]

The book is easy to read, kinda silly but fun. When I started reading I had zero experience with OOP, so it was funny to jump to understand "design patterns" without having an idea of the basics... BUT, it did help me to make the switch. I'm more confident now working with Custom Classes.

I'm totally going to read it again from the start to interiorize the patterns (hopefully haha).

[da²]

On 11/28/2024 at 1:51 AM, Sanyaissues said:

I had zero experience with OOP

Ho nice, I think this is more a book that you should read when you are already a OOP developer and want to go further in structuring your code.

Starting the book without OOP knowledge is quite a bigger challenge. 🙂