Monthly Archives: October, 2009
Evaluation
When I first heard the idea of a self managed learning plan I thought it would be a nice relaxing assignment. If I’m the one setting the workload and the timescale then I can go at my own pace. I could not have been more wrong.
Due to my minimal previous knowledge of PHP and MySQL [...]
It’s now or never!
With the hand in fast approaching I found myself this week mostly procrastinating, the majority of my week was spent doing other things. This concerned me greatly as I thought I was really going to have focus throughout this assignment.
I think this was partly down to feeling I was struggling with certain areas of my [...]
Getting There
This week I’m actually pleased with my progress. After a slow start I have managed to finish the week on a high. Buying another book this week really helped me understand the role of MySQL within web development and I have now managed to integrate some small scripts of PHP with a database.
Now I have [...]
Week One
The week started off not as I had planned. I couldn’t get focused on the initial task I have set myself, to create the crib sheet with relation to PHP and MySQL. For the time being I put this to one side and started getting down to learning from my resources.
I found my first period [...]