The original post: /r/php by /u/malisadri on 2025-01-03 13:26:35.

So I’ve been doing Java and Python MOOC made by Helsinki University.

One thing I really love about their programs is that there are tons of exercises and they create these plugins that you can install in VSCode / Netbeans which will test your program for correctness.

Doing exercises correctly gives you a score which you can track on their website. This little gamification is doing a lot in motivating me to learn and actually do a lot of practice. Otherwise oftentimes my default attitude when looking at exercises is “oh the solution it’s obvious, it’d be trivial to implement” only to then realize that it’s not as simple because later on the auto-checker will often check for edge-cases.

Are there similar sites for PHP?

Am being asked by my friend if I’d be interested in joining his team. But they use php, symfony, zend, etc and I would need to get up to speed real fast