Become a Developer!

Foundations

An introduction to the foundations of web apps, we cover command line basics, Git, GitHub and version control, DOM, HTML, CSS and jQuery. We also examine app projects, the project life cycle and how we choose a project.

Build a Web Page

We learn how to design a web page using BDD, create a user flow, sketch wireframes and iterate from mockup to prototype. Then we start building using HTML and the power of TailwindCSS.

Build a Laravel Project

An introduction to Laravel from basic routing, views, JavaScript and CSS scaffolding, controllers and dependency injection.

Getting started with databases

We look at how Laravel works with databases from the query builder, migrations, seeding, models, collections and factories.

Database Driven App

It's time to get your application and database talking to each other with a deep dive into routes, returning blade views with data and route model binding.

Using Eloquent

Time for your database tables to start talking to each other. We go deeper with the query builder, models, collections and relations.

Test Driven Development (TDD)

How to write a test, feature v unit tests, testing validation rules, testing events and background jobs, working with test databases.

Blade Templates

Blade is the simple, yet powerful templating engine provided with Laravel but unlike other PHP templating engines, Blade does not restrict you from using plain PHP code in your views.

Blade Components

Components, slots, displaying data, rendering JSON, If statements, Switch statements and Loops.