These sessions will help you develop your programming skills in both Java and PHP environments. The objective is to improve your understanding of programming techniques and practices in a number of languages. The sessions will specifically cover concepts and techniques which will be especially useful to you should you decide to continue to the BSc programme after completing your HND.
This session will introduce programming server-side web-based applications using the PHP programming environment as a core component of the XAMMP server environment. XAMPP additionally includes the Apache webserver and the MySQL RDBMS server amongst other server functionality.
The session starts with the steps needed to configure a local development environment using XAMPP before moving on to the coding of a simple local game project.