Spring 2021 Schedule/Topics

(5%) Week 1

• Introduction

• Course logistics

• Onboarding

(5%) Week 2

• Git version control

• Production servers

• Server options

(5%) Week 3

• Code editor setup

• PHP Introduction & Syntax

• Error reporting

• Separation of concerns

• Data types

(15%) Week 4

• Arrays

• Functions (built-in)

• Conditionals

• Loops

• Complete Project 1

(5%) Week 5

• Form processing

(15%) Week 6

• Complete Project 2

(5%) Week 7

• Code style & design

• Functions (user-defined)

• Object-oriented Programming

(5%) Week 8

• P2 Peer Review

• Inheritance

• Autoloading

• Namespacing

(5%) Week 9

• Application frameworks - Introduction, installation, routing, controllers

(5%) Week 10

• Frameworks cont’d - Views

(5%) Week 11

• Frameworks cont’d - Form processing and validation

• Databases

(5%) Week 12

• Databases cont’d

• Migrations

• Seeds

• Commands

(15%) Week 13

• Recap/Review

• Complete Project 3

(5%) Week 14

• Testing

• Wrap-up

Exam week

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