Re: Biggest criticism I've seen of PHP
It's an improvement over the suggested environment from the text, which includes FrontPage Express.
Haven't dug into PHP very deeply yet, but it looks okay so far and my students who work with it seem to like it.
I take your meaning re: e-biz majors, but in their defense they have had programming and database courses prior to this. Now the question is how much were they paying attention.
Word on the street (i.e. from my PD) is that these kids are pretty sharp and they're aching to learn PHP and some Web coding.
Plus of course now they have me.
Tom Sinclair
Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill me because I've
got magic aaargh."
-- Magic armour is not all it's cracked up to be.
(Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times)