Web Applications For Everybody

Summary

Web Applications For Everybody (WA4E) is a a free and opensource course taught by Dr. Charles Severance, where you learn how to build web applications using technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and JQuery.

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Lessons

1. Introduction to Dynamic Web Content

   • We look at the basic structure of a web application and how a web browser interacts with a web server. We explore the Request-Response Cycle that is the basis of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

2. HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

   • We briefly cover the basics of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that is the markup for web pages.

3. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

   • We briefly cover the basics of cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that allow us to style the markup for web pages.

4. Installing PHP and SQL

   • The first task is to work through the installation steps including installing a text editor, installing MAMP or XAMPP (or equivalent), creating a MySql Database, and writing a PHP program.

5. Introduction to PHP

   • We begin learning PHP.

6. PHP Arrays

   • We look at unique aspects of arrays in the PHP language.

7. PHP Functions

   • We look at functions in PHP language.

8. PHP Forms

   • We look at how HTML forms are created and processed in the PHP language.

9. Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL)

   • We learn about single table queries and the basic syntax of the SQL language.

10. Database Design

    • Covering database design with multiple tables, foreign keys, and the JOIN operation..

11. PHP Objects

    • We look at the object oriented pattern in the PHP language.

12. PHP and MySQL

    • We look at how we connect to a MySQL using the Portable Data Objects (PDO) library and issue SQL commands in the the PHP language.

13. PHP Cookies and Sessions

    • We look at how PHP uses cookies and manages session data.

14. PHP Routing, Redirect and Authentication

    • We look at how PHP avoids double posting data, how flash messages are implemented, and how we use a session to log in users in web applications.

15. Building a CRUD Application

    • Now we build our first 'complete' application that has multiple screens to Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) our data. This brings all the previous concepts together and will form the basis for all later web applications.

16. Basic JavaScript

    • We talk a quick look at the JavaScript language. We assume that you already know PHP - so it is a pretty quick introduction focusing on what is different about JavaScript.

17. JavaScript Objects

    • We do a quick look at how the JavaScript language supports the Object-Oriented pattern.

18. jQuery

    • This is a brief introduction to the JQuery library which is widely used to do in-browser manipulation of the Document Object Model(DOM) and event handling.

19. JSON - JavaScript Object Notation

    • In this section we look at JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). JSON is commonly used as a syntax to exchange data between code running on the server (i.e. in PHP) and code running in the browser (JavaScript/JQuery).

20. Handlebars UI Templates

    • In this section we look at moving the templates to build HTML fragments from the server (PHP) in to the browser (JavaScript) using the Handlebars library.

21. Advanced SQL

    • This section covers some advanced SQL topics.

22. SQL Transactions

    • This section covers SQL transactions.

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