INFO 2480-61: Website Database Implementation
  • Syllabus
  • Welcome Letter
  • Week 1: Software and Setup
    • Folder Structure
    • Git: Getting Started
      • Installing a Git Client
      • Creating a Local Repository
      • Making Changes and Merging them
      • Git Wrap Up
    • Git: Github
      • Creating a New Account
      • Creating a Repo on Github
      • Cloning and Forking
      • Cloning a Repo from Github
      • Pushing Changes to Github.com
      • Github: Adding a Collaborator
    • Command Box
      • Downloading the Software
      • Unzipping and Running the Software for the first time
      • Using CommandBox And Installing the UML-Info package.
      • Setting Up Your Local Server
      • Last Step
    • IDE ( Integrated Development Environment )
      • VS Code
      • IntelliJ
    • Journal
  • Week 2: Review of HTML and CSS
    • Making Point In Time and Working Branches
    • Opening our Project from Week 1 and Starting our BoxLang server
    • HTTP Calls and Requests
    • Making a Static Website Dynamic
    • Creating The Management Index.bxm
    • Creating An HTML Form with Bootstrap
    • Last Steps
  • Week 3: Working Forms and our First Table
    • Data Types
    • Case Types and Naming Conventions
    • Database Tools and Your First DB
      • Installing MySql WorkBench
      • Connecting to your MySQL database
      • Creating Your First Table
    • Working Forms
      • Separation of Concerns
      • Configuring Our Site To Use Our Database
      • Capturing Your Form Data
      • Creating Our Server Side Logic
  • Week 5: SQL and Modelling
    • Our Project And Its Users
    • Introduction to SQL
    • Completing our Articles page.
      • Adapting manageArticles.bxm to display existing articles in the database
      • Completing ManageArticles.bxm to Edit Existing Articles.
      • Making Active Articles Appear On The Public Page
  • Week 6: Managing Books
    • Introduction To Modelling
    • Our Data Models
    • Adapting Our Management Page To Be Multi-Tool
    • Creating The Manage Books Page
    • Adding Search To Our Front Index Page
  • Week 7: Working with Selects, Files, WYSIWYG and more.
    • Adding WYSIWYG Capabilities
    • Adding WYSIWYG to the Manage Books Tool
    • Adding Images To Our Store
    • Creating Our Publisher Select Control
  • Week 9: Joins and Better Searching
    • Displaying Our Publisher
    • Searching By Publisher
    • Creating a Browse by Genre
      • Adapting Our Database
      • Building our Queries: Part 1
      • Assigning Genres to a Book in our AddEdit.bxm page
      • Building our Queries: Part 2
      • Building the GenreNav.bxm
      • Adapting The Details.bxm Page to Search By Genre
  • End of Project Checkllist
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  1. Week 1: Software and Setup

IDE ( Integrated Development Environment )

An IDE is a tool used by developers which makes writing code much easier by providing a variety of helpful tools. Here are some of them:

  • Typeahead suggestions - A good IDE knows what language which the developer is using and makes good predictions about what they are trying to type. Many times, this can allow the developer to type a few keystrokes and then press "tab" for the IDE to autocomplete.

  • Code Folding - this collapses sections of code into one line, thus "hiding" a portion in order to make large swaths of code more navigable

  • Code Navigation - A page of code can be broken down into sections. By providing code navigation, a developer can access different parts of a document quickly without repeatedly scrolling up or down.

  • Colored Text based on what purpose that code has

  • Syntax checking - Does the code that is being typed make sense or will it introduce errors?

  • Formatters - automatically formatting code in a way that helps keep it organized and readable

  • Compliers - Languages like Java need to extra steps before they can be deployed and many IDEs can perform those steps.

It is highly recommended that you use VScode for this class because of the integrations which already exist for BoxLang. Other IDEs such as IntelliJ or Dreamweaver are perfectly fine to use but won't have the same level of support. VSCode is a free from Microsoft and is used by millions of developers all over the world.

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