Web Development

Week 2

HTML, CSS, WebServer setup, general information, icebreakers (Resources)

Week 3

PHP - Introduction to the web scripting language. (Resources)

Week 4

PHP - Classes, Polymorphism, and more advance stuff. (Resources)

Week 5

Parsing Websites - Using cURL and Regular Expressions. (Resources)

Week 6

MySQL - Introduction to the popular database.

Week 7

Security - Protecting your website, error checking.

Week 8

API - Introduction. Using the Facebook API.

Week 9

TBA

Week 10

TBA

Who is this for?

This workshop is open to all majors who want to practice problem solving, using a scripting language to create dynamic websites. All of which will give the user enough skill to create the next Facebook, Twitter, or Google! By the end of the workshop, everyone should be able to create a small Facebook Apps or any other applications for websites.

This focus of this workshop is not to teach you how to design websites or code in HTML, but will focus on ensuring that you understand the underlining components of a website like Twitter, so that you can create your own website or a add on to a site such as Facebook.

Relevant CS Courses

This workshop will will cover many different Computer Science topics, which will give you some practice and a taste of some of the CS courses offered here at UCR. This workshop allows you to practice problem solving skills, programming using classes, and other object oriented design principles that are relevant to CS10, CS12, and CS14. You will learn to interact with the Database Management System, MySQL, which will be very similar to the material covered in CS166. You will learn about how to protect your site against vulnerabilities and cross scripting attack, relevent to CS165. You will work with regular expressions to help parse data, which is covered in CS150.