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| Week | Major Topics | Deliverables |
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| Course Outline | ||
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PREFACE and Preparation for the Course (Installation of required software) |
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| 1 | Introduction May 1-5 Course Outline, Software being used, HTML Overview, Web Publishing and FTP |
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| 2 | URLs, Internet Protocols, and Tables May 8-12 What are URLs, domain names, routing, absolute vs relative URLs HTML Tables, Page Layout, DIV Tags, HTML5 Layout |
Lab 1 |
| 3 | Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) May 15-19 Purpose of Stylesheets, templates vs custom, anatomy of style, where to put css, CSS Selectors, Containers |
Lab 2 |
| 4 | Client and Server Side Scripting May 22-26 Introduction to scripting using both JavaScript Client-side and PHP for Server-side - 3-tier Web Solutions, request/response, Scripting Languages, PHP and Server Side scripting |
Lab 3 |
| 5 | Term Test 1 and Scripting Continued May 29-2 Server side scripting continued |
Term Test 1 |
| 6 | PHP Functions and HTML Forms Jun 5-9 An introduction to HTML Forms and using PHP functions |
Lab 4 |
| 7 | PHP Scripting, Sticky Forms, and Data Validation Jun 12-16 Completing data validation on HTML Form input and the nature of public users on the internet. |
Lab 5 |
| Study Week - June 19-23 | ||
| 8 | Forms and Intro to Database Integration Jun 26-30 Processing HTML Forms and how they relate to databases, and how to store data in a database from a form. |
Lab 6 |
| 9 | Term Test 2 and Laptop Web Server Setup July 3-7 Preparing and setting your laptop up as a web server and database server to publish pages and test them locally. |
Term Test 2 |
| 10 | Database Introduction July 10-14 A continuation of database coding with PHP and PostGresSQL. |
Lab 7 |
| 11 | PHP Built-in Functions and Dates July 17-21 |
Lab 8 |
| 12 | Email Validation and Page Redirection July 24-28 |
Lab 9 |
| 13 | User Registration July 31-4 |
Lab 10 |
| 14 | Term Test 3 and Wrap-up Aug 7-11 |
Term Test 3 Bonus Lab |