Getting Started as a Full-Stack Web Developer

Learn about the workflows, hosting, coding, security, and tools and techniques that you will need to work as a full-stack web developer.

Introduction

• Drive the online world as a web developer
• Knowledge and equipment you need
• What is web development?
• Ways to create a website
• How to use the exercise files

1. Make Your Mark Immediately

• Edit pages in a web browser
• Practice coding in an online sandbox
• Create and change pages with a code editor

2. Get Online with Web Hosting

• Why do I need a web host?
• Research and select a web host
• IP addresses, domain names, and certificates
• Connect to the Linux command line with a terminal
• Top eight Linux commands
• Web host permissions

3. Show Information with Display Technologies

• Display information with HTML
• Images and other non-text files
• Style text with CSS
• Going further with CSS
• What people expect from a website

4. Make Things Happen with Programming

• Survey types of programming languages
• JavaScript, a browser-native programming language
• PHP, a web-centric programming language

5. Course Project: Hotel Reservations, Part I

• Create an HTML reservations form
• Style the reservations form with CSS
• Improve the reservation form with JavaScript

6. Develop Your Website Safely

• Develop locally with an AMP stack
• Move files between local and remote storage
• Manage code through Git version control
• Protect your site
• Create a production workflow

7. Connect to Databases and Other Sites

• Data-exchange standards: XML, JSON, and others
• SQL: The database query language
• Connect to a database
• Embed an informative widget
• Application programming interfaces (APIs)

8. Course Project: Hotel Reservations, Part II

• Break the site into modular pieces
• Create a confirmation page
• Record the reservation in a database
• Outsmart hackers and overcome user error

9. Build On the Work of Others

• Why go beyond solo web development?
• Uncover hidden technologies with Wappalyzer
• Web development standards and best practices
• Free resources in the open-source world
• Extend your code with frameworks and libraries
• Develop for content-management systems

10. Develop Your Skills

• Join the discussion in online forums
• The joys and sorrows of copying code
• Connect with the larger web-development world
• Focus on a web-development specialty

Conclusion

• Continue your web-development learning