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In a Computer Science Msc at Coventry university, C# and java were kings, although lecturers praised php in many cases - they choose these languages over php for application development(not just web development) and they cover OOP very clearly in most cases.<br>I think because php is a server-side scripting language, and not a 'strict-type' language then it is not used in the main.<br>My dissertation was written in php and AS3.0, and they were quite happy with that - so point being - it doesn't matter.<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: sonniesedge@gmail.com<br>Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:34:04 +0000<br>To: phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Subject: Re: [Phpwm] Where did all the PHP developers go?<br><br>> Maybe it's an age thing. Are the University students learning <div>> PHP nowadays? on their courses they often learn Java or C# </div><div>> and in their own time Python and Ruby are cool, so do any </div><div>
> of them learn PHP?<br><br></div><div>As an undergrad at Staffs uni - yeah, we get taught it, along with MySQL (I'm sitting in a MySQL tutorial right now!). We also get taught Java and .NET. However, the degrees here are very vocational in nature and I wonder if more theory-based comp sci degrees would offer PHP at all?</div>
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