I’ll teach you how you can take steps to launch your career as a self-taught web developer and start to build and deploy your own projects on the web. You can read a few popular resources below or scroll down to view all resources by category.
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- Build Your First Laravel App: A free 5-day video course that teaches you how to build your very own, first Laravel web application, step by step. Reader Favorite
- Creating a Basic Laravel 5 MVC Application in 10 Minutes
- Playing with Legos: The Inner-Workings of a Model-View-Controller (MVC) Web Application
- How to Quickly and Effectively Read Other People’s Code
- Rubber Duck Debugging: The best way to debug your code that you’ve never tried
- Zen Programming Tips
- How To Get Stuff Done, Automatically
Learn about Web Apps
- The Best Sublime Text 2 Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac & Windows Reader Favorite
- Laravel 5 Model Validation With the Esensi Model Traits Package
- Laravel 5 Application Form Model Binding with the LaravelCollective Forms & HTML Library and Bootstrap Framework
- A List of Good Web App Project Ideas From Current Course Members
- Creating a Laravel 5 Blade Layout to Standardize Your Pages’ Appearance
Come up with your own Web App Ideas
- A List of Good Web App Project Ideas From Current Course Members
- My Simple Framework For Coming Up With Good Web App Project Ideas
- A List of Good Web Application Ideas
- Picking and Breaking Down Your Web Application Idea
- Coming Up With Your Web Application Ideas
Become a better Web Developer
- Personal trainers aren’t just for the gym
- Make yourself useful: How learning to code can dramatically change your life
- Is learning to code a top priority for you?
- The Best Sublime Text 2 Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac & Windows Reader Favorite
- Rubber Duck Debugging: The best way to debug your code that you’ve never tried Reader Favorite
Build Laravel web apps
- Laravel 5 Model Validation With the Esensi Model Traits Package
- Laravel 5 Application Form Model Binding with the LaravelCollective Forms & HTML Library and Bootstrap Framework
- Creating a Laravel 5 Blade Layout to Standardize Your Pages’ Appearance
- Creating a Basic Laravel 5 MVC Application in 10 Minutes Reader Favorite
- Laravel 5 findOrFail ModelNotFoundException Show a 404 Error Page
Learn more PHP
- Laravel 5 Model Validation With the Esensi Model Traits Package
- Laravel 5 Application Form Model Binding with the LaravelCollective Forms & HTML Library and Bootstrap Framework
- Creating a Laravel 5 Blade Layout to Standardize Your Pages’ Appearance
- Creating a Basic Laravel 5 MVC Application in 10 Minutes Reader Favorite
- Laravel 5 findOrFail ModelNotFoundException Show a 404 Error Page
Learn more MySQL
- Move the PHP MySQL Connection Code To Its Own File
- Using Queries to Interact With Your MySQL Database
- Common MySQL Queries & Query Functions Cheatsheet
- MySQL Column Types Cheatsheet
Learn more HTML & CSS
- Laravel 5 Application Form Model Binding with the LaravelCollective Forms & HTML Library and Bootstrap Framework
- An Introduction to HTML & CSS
Build CodeIgniter web apps
- Creating and Processing a Form in CodeIgniter
- Loading and Displaying Data in a CodeIgniter View
- Creating a Custom Controller and View in CodeIgniter
- Configuring a Database in CodeIgniter
- A CodeIgniter Application’s Folder Structure and Important Files
Become more Productive
- My first ever year in review, 2015
- The Best Sublime Text 2 Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac & Windows Reader Favorite
- (Most) Coding Diagrams Are Useless – Learning to Code Using Analogies
- Just Getting Started
- One Step At a Time, Backwards: Breaking Down Your Goals
Enhance your Learning
- Personal trainers aren’t just for the gym
- Make yourself useful: How learning to code can dramatically change your life
- Is learning to code a top priority for you?
- Rubber Duck Debugging: The best way to debug your code that you’ve never tried Reader Favorite
- It’s all about skills, not “knowledge” (Plus, see the full From Idea To Launch course “Performance Path Map”)
Random thoughts and miscellaneous
Want to learn to build and deploy a Laravel web application, step by step?
In From Idea To Launch, my online video course + community, I'll walk you through the entire process of building and launching your own, complete Laravel web application, at beginner's speed. I'll teach you all the PHP and Laravel fundamentals you need to know as you build your application, step by step. And you'll have access to all the help and assistance you need as you move through the course.