Can someone improve their knowledge of programming in Ruby or PHP by using a framework like Rails or Zend, or does the framework just do a lot of the work for you without giving you an opportunity to learn from it?
4th December 2011
Read the source, luke.
(By which I mean, the most effective way to become a better programmer is to read good code written by other programmers. You can learn a great deal from reading Rails/Zend/Django)
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