INTRO TO SERVER-SIDE PROGRAMMINGIntroduction to PHP

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Your Instructor

David Laietta - @davidlaietta

Email: dlaietta@mail.valenciacollege.edu

WordPress Orlando Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Orlando/

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The Class - Things We’ll Learn

Writing computer programs

Using a version control system

Completing individual and group projects

Collaborating and learning with fellow students

Knowing what the program does and that it works properly

Knowing what to fix and how when the program is not working

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What You Need For the Class

A Cloud9 IDE account (free) to work on assignments and collaborate with your classmates

A Github account (also free) to receive and submit assignments

Basic computer competency to handle typing, searching the internet and launching applications

A basic understanding of high-school level algebra

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About The Class

We have only 15 classes. Attendance is important!

Grading and Exam Policy:

Participation: 45 points (includes attendance)Assignments: 30 points (in class assignments)Final Project: 15 pointsFinal Exam: 10 points

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LESSON ONEIntroduction to Programming

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What is Programming?

Definition courtesy of Wikipedia:Computer programming (often shortened to programming) is the comprehensive process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable programs. It involves activities such as analysis, understanding, and generically solving such problems resulting in an algorithm, verification of requirements of the algorithm including its correctness and its resource consumption, implementation (or coding) of the algorithm in a target programming language, testing, debugging, and maintaining thesource code, implementation of the build system and management of derived artefacts such as machine code of computer programs. The algorithm is often only represented in human-parseable form and reasoned about using logic.

Programming is:

Analyzing a problem, determining a solutionTranslating the problem and solution into a computer languageFinding and fixing errors that come up translating the problem and solution

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What is Development?

Definition courtesy of Wikipedia:Software development (also known as application development, software design, designing software, software application development, enterprise application development, or platform development) is the development of a software product. The term "software development" may be used to refer to the activity of computer programming, which is the process of writing and maintaining the source code, but in a broader sense of the term it includes all that is involved between the conception of the desired software through to the final manifestation of the software, ideally in a planned and structured process. Therefore, software development may include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products.

Software Development is:

Computer programming plus all other activities that go into producing a fully functional software systemThis is not what we are doing in this class

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What is Source Control?

Data is recorded on who did what and when with a project

Comments are also set to notate changes that were made

Project files can be compared, restored or merged from any point

Multiple collaborators can work simultaneously and tracks

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Github

Find, follow, contribute, pull and fork projects that you find interesting or that are useful to you

Publish projects that others might find interesting or useful

Collaborate in a group on projects with simple notation

Keep backups of work in a safe place

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Cloud9 IDE

IDE: Integrated Development Environment

Code-focused, project-aware text editorSyntax checking, deployment, source control

Browser based, but capable of offline editing

Connects Workspaces to Github Repositories automatically

Real Time Collaboration

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ASSIGNMENT ONECreate Github and Cloud9 Accounts

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Creating Your Accounts

Github Account:

Open https://github.com/signup/freeUse your Valencia email address, but others can be addedFind and follow the Github organization for this class

Cloud9 Account:

Open https://c9.io/site/sign-up-for-free/Use your Github account to create your Cloud9 accountCreate a new Workspace and call it “sandbox”

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Set Up Your WorkspaceCreate a new Repository in Github called “assignments”

Create a Workspace in Cloud9 from this new repo

Open your Workspace and create a file named “README.md”

Enter the following in that file, then save:name: Your Nameclass: DIG1108C, Fall 2013

Use the console to “git add” and “git commit” your file

Use “git push origin master” to send the file to Github

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HOMEWORK ONETesting Your New Toolkit

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Exploring Your Tools

Part 1:Find the Github account for this class (vc-dig1108-fall-2013)Find the repository for the syllabusSign up for change notifications by “watching” the repo

Part 2:Find an interesting project on Github, preferably smallResearch the project and prepare to explain it in Class TwoCopy (“fork”) the repo into your own Github accountCreate a workspace in Cloud9 for this new repository

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