Spring 2022 Schedule/Topics
All times/deadlines for this course are in the Eastern timezone.
The current time (as of page load) is Tue May 24 @ 9:27pm.
(5%) Week 1 - Tue Jan 25
Introduction
Course logistics
Onboarding/Infrastructure
(5%) Week 2 - Tue Feb 1
Onboarding/Infrastructure cont’d
PHP Foundation
(10%) Week 3 - Tue Feb 8
PHP Foundation cont’d
Complete Project 1
(5%) Week 4 - Tue Feb 15
Object-oriented PHP
Composer dependency management
Frameworks intro
New Laravel application setup
(5%) Week 5 - Tue Feb 22
Request lifecycle
Directory structure
Routing
Facades
Controllers
(5%) Week 6 - Tue Mar 1
Error handling
Views
Blade
(15%) Week 7 - Tue Mar 8
Forms
Validation
Complete Project 2
Spring Break
Mar 12-20
(5%) Week 8 - Tue Mar 22
Environments & Configs
Database introduction
Database setup
Migrations
(5%) Week 9 - Tue Mar 29
Database interaction (CRUD)
Models/Eloquent
Seeders
(5%) Week 10 - Tue Apr 5
Collections
CRUD features
(5%) Week 11 - Tue Apr 12
Authentication/Users
Relationships - One to Many
(5%) Week 12 - Tue Apr 19
Relationships - Many to Many
Testing
(5%) Week 13 - Tue Apr 26
Streamlining controllers
App as API for front-end frameworks
(20%) Week 14 - Tue May 3
Complete Project 3
Exam week
Note: Your last weekly assignment (which includes Project 3) must be submitted by Tue May 10 11:59pm. Because it’s the end of the semester, late work is not accepted for this last assignment.