Pragmatic PHP

🚀 Introducing “PHP: The Pragmatic Way” – Your Guide to Building Real-World PHP Applications!

If you’re ready to take your PHP skills to the next level, this video series is designed to help you do just that! Starting from a static HTML page, we’ll guide you through the process of converting it into a dynamic, maintainable PHP application using best practices.

🔧 What You’ll Learn:
• How to build a custom PHP mini-framework from scratch (no frameworks, just pure PHP!)
• Core concepts like MVC architecture, routing, sessions, and database management
• Practical coding techniques for clean, secure, and maintainable PHP code
• Step-by-step guidance on refactoring your project as it grows, from simple static pages to a full-fledged application

⚙️ Key Features:
• Hands-on approach with real-world examples
• A focus on practical, easy-to-follow solutions
• Emphasis on clean, reusable code that follows industry best practices
• Building your own PHP framework and database handling code along the way

By the end of this series, you’ll have built a fully functional photo review application – and gained the skills to develop your own PHP projects with confidence.

Ideal for: Intermediate PHP developers looking to deepen their understanding and elevate their coding practices.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of PHP and OOP principles.

Ready to take your PHP skills to the next level? Join me in this practical, hands-on series! 👨‍💻👩‍💻

JavaScript for Beginners

Ready to unlock the power of the web? Whether you’re dreaming of building websites, launching interactive apps, or diving into a dev career, JavaScript is your gateway—and this course is your launchpad. 🧑‍💻💥

In “JavaScript for Beginners”, you’ll go from zero to confident coder with a hands-on, modern approach to the world’s most popular programming language. Step-by-step, we’ll guide you through the fundamentals, demystify the syntax, and get you writing real code fast. 💻✨

💡 What you’ll learn:
• 🧠 Core Language Fundamentals: Understand variables, data types, operators, and control flow—build the logic behind the magic.
• 🔁 Loops & Functions: Write clean, reusable code with powerful function patterns.
• 📦 Collections: Master arrays and objects—tools you’ll use everywhere in JavaScript.
• 💥 Intermediate Power-Ups: Destructuring, error handling, template literals, and more to level up your scripts.
• 🌀 Function Wizardry: Closures, higher-order functions, and even recursion? Yes, you can.
• 🏗 Object-Oriented JavaScript: From prototypes to modern ES6 classes and inheritance.
• 🔗 Modules & What’s Next: A sneak peek into modular code and your next steps in the JavaScript journey.

🛠️ You’ll also:
• Set up a coding environment
• Use browser dev tools like a champ
• Build a solid foundation for DOM scripting and frameworks like React

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Whether you’re brand new to coding or switching gears into web development, this course will leave you energized and equipped. By the end, you won’t just know JavaScript—you’ll be using it like a pro. ⚔️🔥

Let’s code something awesome. Your journey starts here! 🌟

Pragmatic Node.js

Ever wondered how JavaScript escaped the browser and took over the backend? In this hands-on TekCasts series, we’ll explore server-side JavaScript step by step — from spinning up your very first Node.js script to deploying a production-ready web app.

🚀 What you’ll learn:
• How Node.js changed the game with non-blocking I/O and the event loop.
• Core fundamentals: modules, NPM, async programming, and the HTTP module.
• Building real web servers: routing, serving static files, and creating JSON APIs.
• Data persistence with JSON files and databases like SQLite, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
• Rendering dynamic pages with templates (EJS) and organizing code with MVC patterns.
• Adding interactivity with forms, sessions, cookies, and authentication.
• Scaling up: middleware, error handling, and exploring frameworks like Express, NestJS, and Fastify.
• Finally, how to deploy your Node.js app with PM2, environment variables, and production best practices.

💥 Whether you’re new to backend development or already comfortable with front-end JavaScript, this series shows you how to go full-stack with one language. By the end, you’ll have the skills to build APIs, dynamic websites, and even scale into frameworks and real-world deployments.

👉 Perfect for learners who want to move beyond the browser, understand the Node.js ecosystem, and unlock the power of JavaScript everywhere.

⚡️ Let’s dive in and forge your backend skills with Node.js!

Pragmatic Laravel

In this hands-on video series, we’ll take a simple static HTML survey page and transform it into a full-featured Laravel application. Along the way, we’ll explore Laravel’s most powerful features — from Blade templating to database modeling, authentication, and interactive dashboards — all while building something real and useful.

This project grows step-by-step, just like a real-world Laravel app. 💡

🧱 We’ll start by:
- Converting a static HTML page into a Laravel project
- Refactoring the markup into clean Blade layouts, partials, and components
- Organizing assets with Laravel Mix / Vite

🗃️ Then we’ll introduce data:
- Defining database tables for surveys, questions, and responses
- Building Eloquent models and relationships
- Creating seeders for test data

⚙️ Next, we’ll make it dynamic:
- Rendering surveys from database-driven definitions
- Handling different question types (multiple choice, sliders, text inputs, etc.)
- Validating and storing user responses

🧑‍💼 Admin features come next:
- Building a secure admin area with authentication and authorization
- Designing a drag-and-drop survey builder to create and manage surveys visually
- Generating unique shareable links (UUID-based) for each published survey

📊 Finally, we’ll visualize the data:
- Building dashboards to summarize responses
- Creating interactive charts and reports
- Exploring data insights using Laravel collections and chart libraries

✨ By the end of this series:

You’ll have built a production-ready Laravel application that demonstrates the complete lifecycle — from front-end design and dynamic rendering to database storage, admin management, and analytics.

It’s a deep dive into practical Laravel — one that connects concepts to craftsmanship. ⚡

PHP Object Oriented Programming

This action-packed video series takes you on a journey from the fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP to advanced techniques, helping you write cleaner, more maintainable, and scalable code.

We kick things off by exploring why OOP matters and how it solves common issues like messy, hard-to-maintain code. You’ll learn how to create classes and objects, define properties and methods, and harness encapsulation 🔒 to control data access. As we progress, we’ll dive into constructors, destructors, namespaces, and autoloading 📦, making your code more efficient and modular.

From there, we explore inheritance & polymorphism 🎭, showing you how to extend classes and implement interfaces for flexible, reusable designs. You’ll master traits, static methods, and the final & parent keywords to control class behavior. Then, we tackle exception handling ⚠️, teaching you how to manage errors like a pro with custom exceptions.

In the final stretch, we bring everything together with real-world patterns, including the Singleton pattern (logger class) 🔁 and Dependency Injection 💡 for writing decoupled, testable code. To top it off, we’ll refactor a calculator app from scratch 🛠️, applying OOP best practices to build a fully optimized application.

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to level up your PHP skills, this series will equip you with everything you need to master OOP and write better PHP code! 🚀🔥

JavaScript in the Browser

Ready to move beyond static web pages and bring your sites to life? This course takes you on a hands-on journey through JavaScript in the browser, showing you how to manipulate the DOM, handle user interactions, fetch live data, and structure real frontend applications — all without relying on heavy frameworks.

You’ll start by learning how the browser works under the hood 🛠️, exploring the DOM and how JavaScript connects with HTML and CSS. From there, you’ll dive into events and interactions, mastering the art of capturing clicks, forms, and user input to build dynamic, interactive UIs.

Next, you’ll peel back the curtain on timing and execution, uncovering how the event loop, timers, and async behavior make JavaScript tick ⏱️. You’ll then learn how to work with data and networking, using the Fetch API, understanding AJAX’s legacy, and tapping into powerful browser APIs like localStorage and geolocation 🌍.

But building apps isn’t just about features — it’s also about resilience. You’ll learn how to gracefully handle errors and keep your UI smooth even when things go wrong 🛡️.

Finally, you’ll put it all together: designing a simple frontend architecture, building a small project that ties everything together, and then zooming out for a big-picture look at frameworks. You’ll see why libraries like jQuery were game-changers historically 📜 and get an overview of the modern ecosystem of frameworks and libraries 🪶.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the confidence to:
• 🎯 Manipulate the DOM and control the browser environment
• 🖱️ Handle events and build interactive user experiences
• ⏳ Understand the event loop and asynchronous behavior
• 🌐 Fetch and store data with modern browser APIs
• 🏗️ Structure code for maintainability and scalability
• 🔎 See where frameworks fit into the bigger picture of frontend development

👉 If you’re comfortable with the basics of JavaScript and ready to master how it powers the browser, this course will give you the tools, insights, and confidence to take your web projects to the next level.