Web Development for beginners: A Crash Course

Web Development very easy - And is matter fact ! you pay attention to mechanism and master just one back-end language you are a web-developer.

What is special? You will learn to code back-end not only using PHP but C++ as well in the additional chapter added, and your application will be as robust as any existing fast application on web.

Introduction

• About the Instructor

• Introduction to Course

• How Web works?

• Installation of Necessary Tools - Windows

• Installation of Necessary Tools - Linux

  
  

HTML

• Introduction to HTML

• HTML Document Structure

• Head Tag

• Basic Text Formatting

• Creating our first HTML file

• Headings and Paragraphs

• Links (anchor Tags)

• Images (img Tag)

• Lists (Unordered and Ordered)

• Input Controls (Text, Password, Radio, Checkbox, Date , Time etc)

• Extra date input controls (week, month)

• Range input control

• Combo box & List box (select Tag)

• Text Areas (textarea Tag)

• Forms (Form Tag)

• Buttons (Submit, Reset)

• Audio & Video controls

• HTML Comments

• html5 standard

• Script Tag (JavaScript)

PHP

• Introduction to PHP

• Enabling libraries

• Basic output (HTTP basic headers)

• Data types, Variables, Constants

• Type-Casting

• Comments in PHP, C++, JavaScript

• Arrays (and their indices, indexes)

• Decision making - Concepts

• Decision making - Implementation (PHP, C++, JavaScript)

• Operators (Comparison, Logical, Arithmetic)

• Increment, Decrement operators

• switch-case (PHP, C++, JavaScript)

• Loops in PHP, C++, JavaScript

• for - Loop

• while - Loop

• do-while - Loop

• foreach - Loop

• String manipulation - basics

• Functions - basics

• Variadic functions

• Default arguments to function

• Form submission program - GET & POST http methods

• Security measures about incoming data

• File IO

• Sessions and some global variables

• JSON data

• Serialization

• OOP in PHP - Object Oriented programming - an introduction

• Inheritance

• Access Modifiers - public, private, protected

Student database - Project v1 - using JSON file as data-store

• Introduction to Project v1

• Project Structure, Data Reading Writing Utility Script

• Creating Homepage Listing

• Add Student Record

• Delete Record

• Update Existing Record

MySQL

• Introduction to MySQL

• Designing a database Visually - no-code

• CRUD - Create Table

• CRUD - Insert data in table

• CRUD - Update existing records in table

• CRUD - Delete records from table

• CRUD - Emptying or Drop a table

• Connecting to MySQL from PHP - Using msqli

• Connecting to MySQL from PHP - Using PDO

Student database - Project v2 - using MySQL

Update Utility file - a complete review of the project

CSS

• Introduction to CSS

• CSS basics

• Bootstrap - What & Why

• Bootstrap Grid system. Basics study

• Bootstrap Form Controls basics

• Let's style our Project v2 UI using Bootstrap

JavaScript

• Introduction to JavaScript

• Basic output in JavaScript

• Data types and Variables

• Constants, let, var

• Backticks in JavaScript

• Comments in JavaScript

• Classes in JavaScript

• for - Loop using (in)

• .forEach function

• String manipulation in JavaScript

• Functions in JavaScript

• Local Storage

jQuery

• Introduction to jQuery

• Use of CSS Selectors in jQuery

• DOM Manipulation

• Ajax (3 ways to send & receive data on the fly)

• Code tuning and some useful function in jQuery

Student database - Project v3 - updating UI using jQuery [ajax requests]

• Set Class of student using jQuery first 

• Ajax calls explanation & JSON output

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Additional chapter : C++ for web (overview + implementation)

• Introduction to C++ for Web

• Similarities and Differences - comparing C++ with PHP and JavaScript

• Basic C++ program - general structure

• Basic Output in C++

• HTTP basic headers and output

• Processing http GET and POST data using C++

• Linking MySQL with our C++ application

• Connecting to MySQL and running queries using C++

Additional : Student database - Project v4 - converting PHP project to C++

• Converting utility.php to utility.h file

• Converting index to C++ version

• Converting add record to C++ version

• Converting update record to C++ version

• Converting delete record to C++ version

NOTE: Following Topics are planned but not part of the Couse at the moment, these will be gradually added.

Planned Topics

• Hosting your website online

• Cpanel, WHM, aaPanel

• FTP basics

• Deploying Database

• Fast way to Transfer website data to another server

• Compiling your C++ code on server

• Generating PDF using external program

• Reading Writing Office documents

• Converting Image Formats

• Converting PDF to other formats

• Obfuscation of PHP Code

• Obfuscation of Javascript Code

• Generating EXE file of your PHP Project

• Generating Browser based Desktop Applciation

• Deliverying & Running PHP Web applciation without Apache Web-server

• MySQL Triggers

• MySQL Temporary Tables

• Grabing Externa Program output / gettingjob done by external programs

• Image Manipulation using GD

• CURL

• Magic functions of PHP