PHP and Laravel

February 20, 2025

Technically, I learned some PHP when I took my first programming course in web development in college. Unrelatedly, I dropped out of CS 101 classes multiple times before sticking around. CS 101 classes, for me, was not easy to pick up, as someone who was not focused in math and had no previous programming experience. I am very grateful to Cornell's INFO 1300 course and Professor Dan Cosley for making the course approachable.

I spent time in 2024 going through PHP and Laravel without having an idea in mind. The general advice is to have an idea and build. The technology will follow and you can learn as you build. But what can I say? Sometimes I like to do tutorials and follow along videos. I see it as a way to add additional modes of learning even if I only retain 30% of the content. Plus, everytime I follow tutorials I learn tips that improves my general development workflow.

I do have some ideas now where I won't try to weigh different frameworks and will use a hammer known as Laravel to do my bidding. First obvious one is redoing this website. I am tired of copy and pasting html templates to maintain this static site and don't want to write my own scripts to automate it.

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