MY EXPERIENCE SO FAR AT CODEVIXENS ACADEMY. LEARNING BACKEND WEB DEVELOPMENT.
I never thought that programming can be fun, yet difficult and sometimes disturbing especially when you don’t get the desired result. At the beginning of this programming class, it was like magic because of my poor background in html, CSS and JavaScript and I opted in for Backend as Beginner. I never thought that i could go this far but all the same i really enjoyed every part of this program.
Codevixens Academy, is the place that i first learned about Back-end Development: to refers to the server-side development. It focuses on databases, scripting, website architecture. And we use PHP as the programming language, and MySQL as the database software.
The first thing we did was the installation of the software that we will be working with like the XAMM which has the database(php-myadmin) and Visual Studio Code for writing our code. Then we learnt the basics and the general syntax like, to start a php page, one must use this syntax <?php?> to indicate that it a php page and the page must be saved with the php extension. Other syntax are the echo, print_r and some html syntax(forms, header and paragraph tags e.t.c). To check the directories of your folder on the console, we used ls and to run an application, we use the syntax: php _S localhost:4444, where the 4444 is the port number.
We then learnt about various ways of declaring variables, how to comment our work to make it more readable, various operators such as the arithmetic, logical, assignment, comparative operators. We also learnt conditional statements like the if and if else, switch, while, do while and the host of others next was array and how to manipulate array. Then we also learnt about form handling that is when a user submit a form how we tend to mange the user’s information when submitted, where we are taught about the post and get method. And then the database where all our information are stored for use immediately or for future use.
During the program, a lot of assignments were given but most importantly, one has to develop one self by making constant research as google they say is our friend. To really become a programmer, you only need the basics then you can then improve and develop yourself by been committed and challenge yourself with various projects online. Finally i want to appreciate our tutor at the codevixen academy (Lois)for her time, mentorship and opportunity given to me to kick start my career in tech.
Thank you CodeVixens.
