Fall 2023 Schedule/Topics

This is the schedule and list of topics for the upcoming Fall 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

• Introduction

• Course logistics

• Infrastructure (Markdown, command line, code editors)

(5%) Week 2

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

(5%) Week 3

• PHP Introduction & Syntax

• Error reporting

• Separation of concerns

• Data types

(5%) Week 4

• Arrays

• Functions (built-in)

• Conditionals

• Loops

(10%) Week 5

• Complete Project 1

(5%) Week 6

• Form processing

(5%) Week 7

• Code style & design

• Functions (user-defined)

• Object-oriented Programming

(15%) Week 8

• Complete Project 2

(5%) Week 9

• Inheritance

• Autoloading

• Namespacing

• Composer

(5%) Week 10

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

(5%) Week 11

• Frameworks cont’d - Views and blade

(5%) Week 12

• Frameworks cont’d - Form processing and validation

• Databases

(5%) Week 13

• Databases cont’d

• Migrations

• Seeds

• Commands

(5%) Week 14

• Testing

• Wrap-up

(15%) Week 15

• Complete Project 3

Exam week

Note: Your Week 15 Assignment (which includes Project 3) must be submitted by TBA. Because it’s the end of the semester, late work is not accepted for this final assignment.