Udemy - Express course - Develop Web Apps/SaaS with PHP and ATK
Free- Lectures 15
- Length 4 hours
- Skill Levels All Levels
- Languages English
- Published 5/2018
Description
Hi,
my name is Romans and I am a professional freelance Web
application developer. I participated and built many SaaS apps, have
worked as CTO for various web start-ups and have been a very active
open-source contributor. I teach secondary students how to build useful
web apps as a hobby.
I offer
you this ORIGINAL COURSE where I will introduce you to a very powerful
"PHP + ATK + Heroku" combination. To my knowledge it's the FASTEST and
the most EFFICIENT approach for building powerful web apps.
How is this course different?
My
goal is not to give you "introduction" to gazillion free
web technologies, instead I will keep my focus on those core
technologies and keep going deeper and
deeper eventually enabling you to build and deploy sophisticated web
apps. ATK is pretty new framework, but its core goal is to make web
development simpler, more friendly, not more complex.
What about Laravel/Symfony?
In
my course you'll learn an efficient way to build Web UI and work with
Data. If you know one of Laravel/Symfony/Wordpress already, you can use
it together with ATK.
How does PHP compare with Ruby/JavaScript/Python?
PHP
is the most popular language for websites and web apps. It alway
was. NodeJS is trendy. Ruby on Rails was trendy in 2006 and is now in
decline. But there is a good reason why PHP remains #1 for web sites -
it runs everywhere, it's easy to install, it's easy to learn and it's
really fast. Don't take my word for it - verify it yourself on "Google
Trends".
What does "Express course" mean in the title?
Most
courses I've seen here will start at the very beginning and will
dedicate some limited time on various technologies you need to build web
apps. 3 lectures on HTML. 2 lectures on CSS and so on. Quite often you
have to listen to over 200 lectures before you get your application
online!
FOR EXAMPLE: many
professional developers DON'T USE SQL language. They rely on "data
abstraction frameworks". Also many Web Developers DON'T write CSS or
HTML themselves. They use CSS frameworks. So, unless you want to be a
Website Designer, there is no real need for you to master HTML/CSS. Yet
other courses will insist on giving you a comprehensive introduction for
all the fundamentals. Why spend your time on them now, if you might not need them in the future?
In
my course I only teach you technologies which you will absolutely need
to make Web Apps. Sometimes I'll suggest you where you can learn more
about those supplementary technologies, but I remain very firmly focused
on the goal.
What are the milestones?
If know nothing about web apps and you start my course now, then:
- In one hour, you will know how to run your own web app in the cloud and use version control.
- In two hours, you will be able to work with database and build interactive applications, and use 3rd party services for sending SMS messages.
- In three hours, you will learn about relations, expressions and data aggregation.
- In four hours, you will know how to make SaaS multi-user apps and send out nicely-looking emails.
- In five hours, you will know how to work with files and accept on-line payments.
Additionally,
we will be implementing lots of web apps. If you need, pause my videos
and try following me with your own code editor. Also - work on
assignments.
DO NOT SKIP LECTURES.
To save time I rarely repeat things. Make sure you fully understand
every lecture before moving on. If not - please post questions in
"Q/A" section.
Other courses to learn?
After finishing this course, I recommend:
- If you wish to be a better frontend/mobile developer - Learn React. It can interact with ATK / PHP through RestAPI.
- If you wish to tweak UI - Learn CSS and dig deeper into Semantic UI.
- If you wish to self-host your apps - learn more about Docker and Kubernetes.
IMPORTANT:
I'm still working to record videos in the curriculum. I typically
release several videos every week. Because my material is NOT COMPLETE,
I am giving you access to my course FOR FREE. Please consider that
before leaving a review.
