Course Schedule

Class schedule will be developed during the course of the semester. I will keep the schedule 1-2 weeks in advance of the current class.

Week 1
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Jan 20		Course Intro Lecture
Jan 22	Read: Basic Web Pages Read: Semantic HTML Read: A Complete Guide to the Table Element	Set up Laragon development environment

Week 2
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Jan 27	Read: Intimidated By CSS? The Definitive Guide To Make Your Fear Disappear Read: Media Queries in Responsive Design: A Complete Guide (2021) View: Write code faster in VS Code with Emmet shortcuts Tool: Brackets Cheat Sheet – PC Tool: Emmet Cheat Sheet	Optional: Right click to save CSS example file into your /exercises folder. Optional: CSS Review (video) Complete Exercise #0.
Jan 29	Read: Box Sizing Example: Box-sizing Read: CSS Tricks - :nth-child Example: :nth child Reference: flex-direction Example: Pure CSS Hamburger Menu Optional: The Beginner’s Guide to CSS Shorthand	Lecture - Responsive Design Techniques Review Begin Exercise #1

Week 3
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Feb 3	Review Digital Imaging & Photoshop Basics lecture Optional: Download boots photo to work along with lecture. Read Web Images – File Types & Use Cases	Lecture - Image Production Lecture Notes - Image Production View Object Selection Finish Exercise #1
Feb 5	Scan: Flexbox Tutorial Scan: CSS Wildcard: Complete Tutorial on Use of Wildcards in CSS	Set up publishing accounts Advanced flexbox lecture Exercise #2 - Flexbox video work-along. Discuss organization for calendar project or alternative.

Week 4
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Feb 10	Read: CSS Tricks: text-transform Reference: Character entities	Begin Exercise #3
Feb 12		Work on Exercise #3.

Week 5
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Feb 17		Finish Exercise #3.
Feb 19	Read: The Skinny on CSS Attribute Selectors	View HTML Forms lecture Download forms.html to /exercises and forms-style.css to /css. Begin Exercise #4.

Week 6
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Feb 24	Read: Design Better Forms	Begin Exercise #5.
Feb 26		Finish Exercise #5.

Week 7
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Mar 3	View Grid Lecture Read: Basic Concepts of Grid Layout	Begin Exercise #6.
Mar 5	Read: Introduction to SQL	View MySQL Lecture Begin SQL Exercise.

Week 8
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Mar 10		Finish Exercise #7.
Mar 12		Class canceled. University Closed.

Week 9
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Mar 24		Brief PHP Introduction Work through PHP Basic section of TutorialRepublic PHP Tutorial.
Mar 26		Review PHP Date and Time section of PHP Advanced section of TutorialRepublic PHP Tutorial. Work through selections of PHP & MySQL Database section of TutorialRepublic PHP Tutorial. I will specify the necessary sections in class. Begin Exercise #8. Will be sent via email.

Week 10
Date	Assignment due	Activities
Mar 31
Apr 2	Read Sass Basics	Finish Exercise #8. Install Scout-App or Prepros Work through Sass Tutorial.