Coding Quickly; How?
tdavis: If you're a novice, of course it is normal to consult outside resources a lot. With PHP it will require an obscene amount of memorization since there aren't really any strict naming or parameter conventions within the builtins lib. Plus, you've got to recall everything about the framework, too. I've been developing with Django for a couple years now and I still have to look up stuff I don't use that often. It just isn't efficient to try to memorize every single detail.Don't worry too much about people who claim to have made an app in 30 hours or something. Chances are they (a) used something familiar to them and (b) most of the code came from existing libraries, APIs, etc. For what it's worth, I flag everything with some sort of development time in the title because I find it to be both arrogant and largely irrelevant (you made a URL shortener in 5 hours?! Do you want a cookie?!).If you want to write code faster, write more code. You will get faster. That's about it.