Spring 2025 Schedule/Topics

This is the schedule and list of topics for the upcoming Spring 2025 semester. This information is provided to give you a rough idea of what to expect in this course; the schedule may undergo revisions before the course begins.

(5%) Week 1 - Tue Jan 28

• Introduction

• Course logistics

• Onboarding/Infrastructure

(5%) Week 2 - Tue Feb 4

• Onboarding/Infrastructure cont’d

• PHP Foundation

(10%) Week 3 - Tue Feb 11

• PHP Foundation cont’d

• Complete Project 1

(5%) Week 4 - Tue Feb 18

• Object-oriented PHP

• Composer dependency management

• Frameworks intro

• New Laravel application setup

(5%) Week 5 - Tue Feb 25

• Request lifecycle

• Directory structure

• Routing

• Facades

• Controllers

(5%) Week 6 - Tue Mar 4

• Error handling

• Views

• Blade

(15%) Week 7 - Tue Mar 11

• Forms

• Validation

• Complete Project 2

Spring Break Mar 17-23

(5%) Week 8 - Tue Mar 25

• Environments & Configs

• Database introduction

• Database setup

• Migrations

(5%) Week 9 - Tue Apr 1

• Database interaction (CRUD)

• Models/Eloquent

• Seeders

• Production

(5%) Week 10 - Tue Apr 8

• Collections

• CRUD features

(5%) Week 11 - Tue Apr 15

• Authentication/Users

• Relationships (One to Many)

(5%) Week 12 - Tue Apr 22

• Relationships (Many to Many)

• Testing

(5%) Week 13 - Tue Apr 29

• Streamlining controllers

• App as API for front-end frameworks

(20%) Week 14 - Tue May 6

• Updating Laravel

• Complete Project 3