While they do an good job targetting both beginners and advanced users, it really does a good job with beginners that have little programming experience. Someone coming from C++ or Perl could probably figure out what a given amount of code does, wouldn't something like this look a wee bit intimiating to a newbie:
$dbh=mysql_pconnect('127.0.0.1','uname','passwd')
mysql_select_db('customers');
$query = 'select * from TABLE where ID > '.$minID
$result = mysql_query($query,$dbh);
See, this USB port thing is a, err, piece of metal and plastic. And these things you plug into them, well, they, um, err, also are metal and plastic. And that big box known as a computer is, (can you guess?) metal and plastic. What you need are those, um, whatja-ma-call-it thingys. I think they're called drivers.
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While they do an good job targetting both beginners and advanced users, it really does a good job with beginners that have little programming experience. Someone coming from C++ or Perl could probably figure out what a given amount of code does, wouldn't something like this look a wee bit intimiating to a newbie:
$dbh=mysql_pconnect('127.0.0.1','uname','passwd')
mysql_select_db('customers');
$query = 'select * from TABLE where ID > '.$minID
$result = mysql_query($query,$dbh);
See, this USB port thing is a, err, piece of metal and plastic. And these things you plug into them, well, they, um, err, also are metal and plastic. And that big box known as a computer is, (can you guess?) metal and plastic. What you need are those, um, whatja-ma-call-it thingys. I think they're called drivers.