BackwardJet/LAMP-Stack-Workshop

A repository created for the LAMP Stack Workshop I am hosting for IEEE

LAMP-Stack-Workshop

A repository created for the LAMP Stack Workshop I am hosting for IEEE at UC Irvine

Description of Workshop:

Due to overwhelming interest, we have decided to host a part 2 to our original LAMP stack workshop. This workshop will be hosted by our workshop coordinator, Tej Vuligonda. For those of you interested in learning more about web development and building full-stack applications, please come check it out!

NOTES/PREREQUISITES from Tej

Prerequisites:

• Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
  • A good place to learn these skills is Codecademy: https://www.codecademy.com/
    • This should not take too long to learn so please go through the HTML and CSS tutorials before the workshop as there will not be a lot of time to go through the fundamentals during the time we have.
• Basic knowledge of programming concepts
  • ICS 31 or equivalent should be enough
• Basic knowledge of bash/shell/Linux commands
  • Examples: cd, ls, mkdir, etc.
  • A good place to learn this is also Codecademy

Cloud hosting solution:

• Sign up for a Digital Ocean account using this link for $10 credit: https://m.do.co/c/1e6cb47c1ccc
  • NOTE: It will ask you for a payment method but you will not need to pay anything because you will get $10 credit by signing up through the above link
  • If for some reason this does not work, please download VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) and set up an Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop Virtual Machine (Link to ISO file: http://www.releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso)
    • DO NOT USE VirtualBox unless you have experience setting up virtual machines because if we run into bugs, it will be difficult to debug them during the workshop

Software to Download on your machine:

• Windows: Please download MobaXterm Home edition to SSH into the server.
  • Download MobaXterm from here: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html
  • Please download the home edition as it is free and does not require a license
• Mac: No external SSH client needed as the built-in terminal comes with SSH

Please email me at tvuligon@uci.edu if you have any questions!