The midterm will be an in-class practical where you will build a web application using Laravel in 2.5 hours based on requirements I give you using the material that you learned in the weeks leading up to the exam. You can use previous assignments, notes, and the internet to look things up. You are NOT ALLOWED to communicate with anyone in or outside of class by any means. To study, review assigned readings, past assignments and labs, and class demos.
The app that you will build during the exam will need to be a separate installation from the one you have been using for labs, assignments, and class demos. You will also be expected to deploy this application to Heroku. Before the midterm, I encourage you to do the following:
- Install a new Laravel app. Be sure you are installing a Laravel 6 app instead of a Laraval 7 app. Laravel 7 was released mid-semester. I'm pretty sure everything we've covered also works in Laravel 7, but use Laravel 6 just to be safe. You can install a Laravel 6 app with
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel midterm "6.2.*". You can verify which version of Laravel your app is running on by looking at the filecomposer.jsonand the line that contains"laravel/framework". - Set up your Laravel app to work with this SQLite database. This database has a table called
employeeswith two columns:idandname. - To make sure you have set up everything correctly, create a GET route at
/employeesthat displays all records from theemployeestable. - Deploy your app to Heroku and put your Heroku link on the
README.md.
You are welcome to use Bootstrap so feel free to set that up as well.
The Project
Recommendations
I highly recommend that you make commits along the way. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you want to revert to the last commit where things were working and discard the changes you've made since then, you can run the following git commands from within your repo:
git reset --hard
git clean -fdThis will delete all changes you've made since the last commit.
