Fall 2021 Schedule/Topics
All times/deadlines for this course are in the Eastern timezone.
The current time (as of page load) is Wed Sep 22 @ 2:11pm.
(5%) Week 1 - Tue Aug 31
Introduction
Course logistics
Infrastructure (Markdown, command line, code editors)
(5%) Week 2 - Tue Sep 7
Infrastructure cont’d (SSH keys, servers, version control, domains)
(5%) Week 3 - Tue Sep 14
PHP Introduction & Syntax
Error reporting
Separation of concerns
Data types
(5%) Week 4 - Tue Sep 21
Arrays
Functions (built-in)
Conditionals
Loops
(10%) Week 5 - Tue Sep 28
Complete Project 1
(5%) Week 6 - Tue Oct 5
Form processing
(5%) Week 7 - Tue Oct 12
Code style & design
Functions (user-defined)
Object-oriented Programming
(15%) Week 8 - Tue Oct 19
Complete Project 2
(5%) Week 9 - Tue Oct 26
Inheritance
Autoloading
Namespacing
(5%) Week 10 - Tue Nov 2
Application frameworks - Introduction, installation, routing, controllers
(5%) Week 11 - Tue Nov 9
Frameworks cont’d - Views
(5%) Week 12 - Tue Nov 16
Frameworks cont’d - Form processing and validation
Databases
(5%) Week 13 - Tue Nov 23
Databases cont’d
Migrations
Seeds
Commands
(5%) Week 14 - Tue Dec 30
Recap/Review
Testing
Wrap-up
(15%) Week 15 - Tue Dec 7
Complete Project 3
Exam week
Note: Your last weekly assignment (which includes Project 3) must be submitted by Tue Dec 14 @ 11:59pm Eastern . Because it’s the end of the semester, late work is not accepted for this last assignment.