Spring 2023 Schedule/Topics

This is the schedule and list of topics for the upcoming Spring 2023 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 24

• Introduction

• Course logistics

• Onboarding/Infrastructure

(5%) Week 2 - Tue Jan 31

• Onboarding/Infrastructure cont’d

• PHP Foundation

(10%) Week 3 - Tue Feb 7

• PHP Foundation cont’d

• Complete Project 1

(5%) Week 4 - Tue Feb 14

• Object-oriented PHP

• Composer dependency management

• Frameworks intro

• New Laravel application setup

(5%) Week 5 - Tue Feb 21

• Request lifecycle

• Directory structure

• Routing

• Facades

• Controllers

(5%) Week 6 - Tue Feb 28

• Error handling

• Views

• Blade

(15%) Week 7 - Tue Mar 7

• Forms

• Validation

• Complete Project 2

Spring Break Mar 12-18

(5%) Week 8 - Tue Mar 21

• Environments & Configs

• Database introduction

• Database setup

• Migrations

(5%) Week 9 - Tue Mar 28

• Database interaction (CRUD)

• Models/Eloquent

• Seeders

(5%) Week 10 - Tue Apr 4

• Collections

• CRUD features

(5%) Week 11 - Tue Apr 11

• Authentication/Users

• Relationships (One to Many)

(5%) Week 12 - Tue Apr 18

• Relationships (Many to Many)

• Testing

(5%) Week 13 - Tue Apr 25

• Streamlining controllers

• App as API for front-end frameworks

(20%) Week 14 - Tue May 2

• Complete Project 3

Exam week

Note: Your Week 14 Assignment (which includes Project 3) must be submitted by Tue May 9 11:59pm. Because it’s the end of the semester, late work is not accepted for this final assignment.