DGMD E-2 Web Programming for Beginners with PHP
Fall 2020 Schedule/Topics
All times/deadlines for this course are in the Eastern timezone.
The current time (as of page load) is Sat Sep 26 @ 11:36am.
(5%) Week 1 - Thu Sep 3
- Introduction
- Course logistics
- Command line
- Local servers
(5%) Week 2 - Thu Sep 10
- Git version control
- Production servers
- Server options
(5%) Week 3 - Thu Sep 17
- Code editor setup
- PHP Introduction & Syntax
- Error reporting
- Separation of concerns
- Data types
(15%) Week 4 - Thu Sep 24
- Arrays
- Functions (built-in)
- Conditionals
- Loops
- Complete Project 1
(5%) Week 5 - Thu Oct 1
- Form processing
- GET & POST
- Building forms
- Retrieving data from the request
(15%) Week 6 - Thu Oct 8
- Complete Project 2
(5%) Week 7 - Thu Oct 15
- Code style & design
- Functions (user-defined)
- Object-oriented Programming
(5%) Week 8 - Thu Oct 22
- Inheritance
- Autoloading
- Namespacing
- Composer
(5%) Week 9 - Thu Oct 29
- Application frameworks: Introduction, installation, routing, controllers
(5%) Week 10 - Thu Nov 5
- Frameworks cont’d: Views
(5%) Week 11 - Thu Nov 12
- Frameworks cont’d: Form processing and validation
- Databases
(5%) Week 12 - Thu Nov 19
- Databases cont’d
Thanksgiving break - Nov 25-29
(15%) Week 13 - Thu Dec 3
- Complete Project 3
(5%) Week 14 - Thu Dec 10
- Web programming big picture - other languages and frameworks
- Testing
Exam week
The Week 14 assignment must be submitted by Thu Dec 17. Because it’s the end of the semester, late submissions are not accepted for these final deliverables.