# Useful tip: Beginners, start small.

**URL:** <https://www.phphelp.com/t/useful-tip-beginners-start-small/17137>\
**Category:** The Occasional Tutorial\
**Created:** [May 25, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.phphelp.com/t/useful-tip-beginners-start-small/17137 "2012-05-25T14:26:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ojoshiro](https://www.phphelp.com/user_avatar/www.phphelp.com/ojoshiro/32/274_2.png) [@Ojoshiro](https://www.phphelp.com/u/Ojoshiro)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.phphelp.com/t/useful-tip-beginners-start-small/17137/1 "2012-05-25T14:26:26Z")

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Hi,

I noticed there are a lot of ‘beginners’ in this forum who ‘start’ with trying to write a multiuser game, a forum, a shop-site or a Wall-Street cracking Artificial Intelligence.

Here’s the tip:

[center]Start with something small!.[/center]

Your parents didn’t drop you at the startingline of a Marathon when they wanted to teach you to walk.  
I’m pretty sure this will help.

O. 😃

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**Author:** ![Ojoshiro](https://www.phphelp.com/user_avatar/www.phphelp.com/ojoshiro/32/274_2.png) [@Ojoshiro](https://www.phphelp.com/u/Ojoshiro)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.phphelp.com/t/useful-tip-beginners-start-small/17137/2 "2012-05-29T13:28:23Z")

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Made more elaborate.