Thursdays, 6:00 - 10:00 (don't worry, we'll take a break)

Eric Haseltine <- that's me

• email: eric@choppingblock.com

choppingblock.com, portfolio

choppingblock.com, portfolio

chopshopstore.com

To gain knowledge and insight about how web applications are built, and built an example for ourselves

We want to learn through making things!

This is an introductory class, so there will be plenty of things we don't cover

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is an weakly typed, interpreted programming language with object-oriented capabilities

PHP has changed a lot over the years, from a strict procedural language to a more object-orientated language

MySQL is a relational database system that understands the Structured Query Language

MySQL isn't a language, but a server that understands a particular language

JavaScript is an weakly typed, interpreted programming language with object-oriented capabilities

OR

Javascript is prototype-based object-oriented scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Not a programming language, but a style language for defined how markup (HTML for us) is visually displayed

Simply — Writing instructions for some process that your computer can follow

2 parts to this:

• Constructing your algorithm
• Knowing the syntax of the programming language

• Safari: Great to develop in
• Firefox: Great to develop in
• Chrome: Great to develop in
• Internet Explorer: Step away slowly...

• MAMP: Mac Apache MySQL PHP
• LAMP: Linux Apache MySQL PHP
• WAMP: Windows ...

• Notepad: It works!
• SciTe: Much better than Notepad
• Dreamweaver
• Also heavier weight packages like Eclipse or Visual Studio

• TextEdit: Comes standard, it works!
• TextMate: My favorite
• TextWrangler: A good freebie
• Coda by Panic
• XCode, Eclipse and others

Server-side versus Client-side

• PHP
• MySQL

• Javascript
• CSS