Fall 2022 Schedule/Topics

This is the schedule and list of topics for the upcoming Fall 2022 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 Aug 30

• Introduction

• Course logistics

• Infrastructure (Markdown, command line, code editors)

(5%) Week 2 - Tue Sep 6

• Infrastructure cont’d (SSH keys, servers, version control, domains)

(5%) Week 3 - Tue Sep 13

• PHP Introduction & Syntax

• Error reporting

• Separation of concerns

• Data types

(5%) Week 4 - Tue Sep 20

• Arrays

• Functions (built-in)

• Conditionals

• Loops

(10%) Week 5 - Tue Sep 27

• Complete Project 1

(5%) Week 6 - Tue Oct 4

• Form processing

(5%) Week 7 - Tue Oct 11

• Code style & design

• Functions (user-defined)

• Object-oriented Programming

(15%) Week 8 - Tue Oct 18

• Complete Project 2

(5%) Week 9 - Tue Oct 25

• Inheritance

• Autoloading

• Namespacing

(5%) Week 10 - Tue Nov 1

• Application frameworks - Introduction, installation, routing, controllers, views

(5%) Week 11 - Tue Nov 8

• Frameworks cont’d - Views and blade

(5%) Week 12 - Tue Nov 15

• Frameworks cont’d - Form processing and validation

• Databases

(5%) Week 13 - Tue Nov 22

• Databases cont’d

• Migrations

• Seeds

• Commands

(5%) Week 14 - Tue Nov 29

• Testing

• Wrap-up

(15%) Week 15 - Tue Dec 6

• Complete Project 3

Exam week

Note: Your last weekly assignment (which includes Project 3) must be submitted by Tue Dec 13. Because it’s the end of the semester, late work is not accepted for this last assignment.