Learning PHP/Car Engines
Does anyone know if my learning PHP code would better my chances of being or learning how to be an effective Car Mechanic? I'm stuck on this.
Troubleshooting is always the same, regardless of the technology: Look at the symptoms. Observe the system to see what it's actually doing. Analyze any residue left behind as the system operates/fails. Start with the most obvious potential sources of error. Eliminate things as you go. What's left at the end is the root cause.
However, keep in mind that computers are vastly more complex than engines. Add networking and it gets even more complicated. One way to think of it is that a computer running a LAMP stack (as an example) has hundreds of 'engines' all interacting with each other. The result is that what's wrong with one 'engine' affects the others in ways that aren't always obvious.
That is, there is a CAN bus plug on modern cars, shouldn't you learn how to access it? This is easy to do in Python
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-can
but I don't see drivers to do it from PHP.