schedule

The following schedule is tentative. “Reading” is to be completed before the start of class; any “supplement” reading won’t even be mentioned in lecture, but can be helpful for alternate presentation of the material, and/or for the homeworks. Chapters refer to Ullman’s PHP for the Web, unless indicated otherwise. Recall that the books are accessible on-line via McConnell Libray’s “Safari” catalog.

Much of the notes are discussed in the youtube playlist, but those videos are intended to be watched while also looking at the notes and the accompanying source-code. I recommend working along with the videos, pausing as you do so. If you prefer only reading the notes, that also should suffice for the pre-quizzes.

date	lecture notes	supplementary reading (optional)	hw
week 1
Aug.26	intro: web requests and responses
Aug.28	intro http headers (request and response); discuss syllabus and Project/
Aug.30	php-intro.html ; running php on rucs; php in multiple files	§10 Creating Functions skim §6 Control Structures	proj teams
week 2
Sep.02	A bit of well formed xhtml, and then: php’s slippery types.	§2.3 types of variables
Sep.04	processing arrays; During lecture: array practice	§7 Using Arrays	hw01/;
Sep.06	php strings; running php on php.radford.edu	§2.5 quotation marks
week 3
Sep.09	html input forms, and php; start testing forms		hw02/
Sep.11	Finish html input forms, and php (and in lecture-only: mention GET v. POST;finish testing forms; sanitizing form input)		proj proposal
Sep.13	grouping web-inputs into arrays
week 4
Sep.16	regular expressions
Sep.18	git
Sep.20	regexp intro; examples/practice		hw04
week 5
Sep.23	regexp representations (first video/section), and calling `regexp-match` in php.	pp.129–130 with skepticism
Sep.25	start server-side-validation/		hw03/
Sep.27	finish structure of server-side validation code
week 6
Sep.30	js refactoring example
Oct.02	finish js refactoring example
Oct.04	looping over tables (`SELECT` results)		hw05/
week 7
Oct.07	validating via html-attributes (2nd video); cookies	Chpt.09 pp. 242–260 (Cookies); pp.400–405 (case study)
Oct.09	sessions (including security aspects); Creating a mysql db on php.radford.edu (1st video)	Chpt.09 pp. 260–268 (Sessions); Chpt.12
Oct.11	fall br eak
week 8
Oct.14	start sanitizing DB queries	Chpts.12, 13 with skepticism	hw06/ but completeable by Apr.05
Oct.16	continue db
Oct.18	continue db
week 9
Oct.21	securing passwords
Oct.23	third party cookies; sessions vs tabs
Oct.25	DB-design / ERD review
week10
Oct.28	XML
Oct.30	XSLT ; finish `xsl:choose`, `xsl:sort`; XPATH; start XPath functions		hw07/
Nov.01	finish XPath functions; review (critique) the code used in computing years standing and learn to read some greek.		proj: progress report II
week11
Nov.04	DTDs
Nov.06	DTD design thoughts; Review / Wrap-up	§§0–∞ `:-)`	hw08
finals week
May.07 (Tue) 12:30	proj: presentations		Project/

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