BART Project

Andrew and I finished (for now) the bank example and he gave me a new project to build an application based on the BART in San Francisco. I’ll be creating object classes for Stations, Turnstyles, and Cards to begin with. We set up a Git repository for our work and I’ll be building my first draft of the objects this week.

Some notes from today…

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Week 2

January 23-27

Topics of the Week:

  • Object Oriented Programming

We started with an overview of OOP and then dove into an example project of a fake Bank.

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OOP in PHP Tutorials

PHP Tutorials Examples Object Oriented Programming with PHP.

This is a great tutorial about working with OOP in PHP.

Killer PHP

Another PHP Video tutorial site. – Very popular OOP tutorial series, but a little slow.

Good descriptions of separation of code between Model View Controller, or business logic, database connections, validation etc.

 

Week 1

January 16-20

Each week, I’ll post the topics that I have covered. I plan to do this at the end of the week, so it will hopefully reflect the random links and posts I make throughout the week.

The topics for week 1 are:

  • Introduction to the Agile Development Process
  • Introduction to the Application Stack and MVC
  • Introduction to Web Protocols and Services (DNS, HTTP, FTP, etc)
  • Environment Setup
  • Basic Server Administration (Linux)
  • Datatypes and their Uses
  • Stacks, Queues, and other Data Structures
  • Object Oriented Programming

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Unix Reference PDF

Unix reference (click to download) – A great Printout Unix Reference – found on Fosswire.com.

Terminal/Unix tutorials
http://smokingapples.com/software/tutorials/mac-terminal-tips/
http://guides.macrumors.com/Terminal
http://www.lynda.com/Mac-OS-X-10-6-tutorials/Unix-for-Mac-OS-X-Users/78546-2.html

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A brief history…

Web design and development have always been hobbies of mine. In high school I created a website with my friends by reading the source code of popular sites and emulating what we saw. We created a site for other students at Signature School in the Pre-IB program to share news and organize, as we were in the middle of a battle with the school board over funding and the future of the program. Well, that was the goal at least.

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