PROGRAMMING IN PHP/MYSQL

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Course Synopsis

This level of the course targets beginners who want to learn how to think and write meaningful piece of codes in PHP/MYSQL, understand how to read PHP/MYSQL codes that have been written by somebody else and how to map literary description of a problem (requirement) to an application/library coded in PHP/MYSQL. In summary, this course teaches how to program using the PHP/MYSQL programming language. This is a core basic level course that is essential for anyone who has no prior programming experience but wishes to be a professional PHP/MYSQL engineer in future.

Required Textbooks

1. Lynn Beighley and Michael Morrison, “Head First PHP & MySQL”, O’Reilly.
2. Vikram Vaswani, “PHP: A Beginner’s Guide”, McGraw Hill.

Completion Criteria

After fulfilling all of the following criteria, the student will be deemed to have finished the Module:

1. Has attended 90% of all classes held.
2. Has received an average grade of 80% on all assignments.
3. Has received an average of 60% in assessments.
4. The tutor believes the student has grasped all of the concepts and is ready to go on to the next module.

Prerequisites

1. Fundamental understanding of programming, bits/bytes, procedures, classes, and computer architecture. It's absolutely acceptable if you only have a theoretical understanding of programming, but you should be certain about what programming is and what you intend to gain from this session.
2. If you are only interested in theory and have no interest/patience in spending at least 10 hours every week throughout the duration of the course, then this course might not be for you.
3. If you have absolutely no idea about programming or do not see yourself doing programming in the next six -odd months, then this class may not be for you.