My name is Chris Kim, and I will be serving as your (virtual) instructor for the next six weeks.
Having graduated from Ryerson's RTA School of Media, I currently work as an independent web designer-developer for various businesses across Toronto. I am also in the midst of completing a doctoral degree in computer science with specialization in information visualization. Personally, I am infatuated with retro pop culture, jazz music vinyls, and general artsy things.
This course is all about PHP, MySQL and other topics in back-end web development. By the end of this 6-week course, I hope that you will be able to:
This course is split into six parts, each consisting of a concept lecture (like this one) as well as a coding exercise with a screencast accompaniment. You are expected to join the course with some knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with little to no prior experience with back-end web programming.
Finally, you will need the following applications as you proceed with the course: