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CSCI E-15 Web Server Frameworks with Laravel/PHP

Schedule

This is the schedule of topics/dates for the upcoming Spring 2020 semester. This information is provided to give you a rough idea of what to expect in this course; the schedule may undergo minor revisions before the course begins.

(5%) Week 1 - Tue Jan 28

Introduction
Course logistics
Website architecture
Local server setup

(5%) Week 2 - Tue Feb 4

Workflow w/ Git version control
Production server setup
PHP Foundation

(10%) Week 3 - Tue Feb 11

PHP Foundation cont’d
Complete Project 1

(5%) Week 4 - Tue Feb 18

Frameworks intro
Composer setup
New application setup

(5%) Week 5 - Tue Feb 25

Routing
Laravel structure/life-cycle
Controllers

(5%) Week 6 - Tue Mar 3

Environments
Views & Blade

(15%) Week 7 - Tue Mar 10

App as API for front-end frameworks
Forms
Validation
Complete Project 2

Spring Break March 15-21

(5%) Week 8 - Tue Mar 24

Database primer
Local database setup
Migrations

(5%) Week 9 - Tue Mar 31

DB interaction with models/Eloquent
Seeders
Production database setup

(5%) Week 10 - Tue Apr 7

Example app progress
Collections

(5%) Week 11 - Tue Apr 14

Relationships
More example app progress
Auth/Users

(5%) Week 12 - Tue Apr 21

Testing

(5%) Week 13 - Tue Apr 28

(20%) Week 14 - Tue May 5

Complete Project 3

Exam week

Note: The Week 14 assignment (and corresponding Project 3) must be submitted by Tue May 12 11:59pm Eastern. Because it’s the end of the semester, late work is not accepted for this final deliverable.