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Once you get through the basics, think of a couple small programs to write to test out your new skills and you'll be sure to encounter new problem. Some of the first programs I wrote in PHP included sorting and ordering a list of numbers and letters that were entered, a pig latin converter, and then to get the hang of MySQL, I created some simple database entries.

For the first month I was constantly referencing other code online to figure out how to create my programs. After a while I found myself looking less and less at existing code and I was able to simply type away.