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DGMD E-2 Web Programming for Beginners with PHP
Spring 2021 Schedule/Topics
All times/deadlines for this course are in the Eastern timezone.
The current time (as of page load) is Sat Jan 23 @ 12:06am.
(5%) Week 1
- Introduction
- Course logistics
- Command line
- Local servers
(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
- Composer
(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