1 00:00:02,710 --> 00:00:08,680 So welcome to Building Modern Web Applications Engo This, of course, should be a great deal of fun 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,860 and we're going to cover an awful lot of material. 3 00:00:11,170 --> 00:00:13,720 But first, let me tell you a little bit about myself. 4 00:00:13,990 --> 00:00:19,090 My name is Trevor Solla and I've been working in the software development field for more than 20 years. 5 00:00:19,540 --> 00:00:24,070 I've done work for tiny clients, little projects that are only a thousand dollars or so. 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:30,130 And I've worked on projects for very large clients, including Hewlett-Packard and Sprint and many, 7 00:00:30,130 --> 00:00:34,510 many others all across North America, parts of Europe and the Caribbean. 8 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,350 And I've also been teaching at the university level for more than 20 years. 9 00:00:38,350 --> 00:00:42,680 And I've taught in computer science and I've also taught in English literature. 10 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:49,060 I wasn't sure what to study in university, so I studied lots and lots of things and I do have a PhD, 11 00:00:49,390 --> 00:00:50,700 but don't hold that against me. 12 00:00:50,710 --> 00:00:55,600 I have been working in the private sector and know how software development should work, and that's 13 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,310 the sort of thing we'll be covering in this course. 14 00:00:57,610 --> 00:00:59,110 And what are we going to be doing? 15 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,980 Well, we're going to learn the fundamentals of the go programming language. 16 00:01:03,430 --> 00:01:08,680 And I'm of the firm belief that the best way to learn how to work in any given programming language 17 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:16,030 is to build something, not just to learn about loops and if statements and so forth by themselves. 18 00:01:16,420 --> 00:01:19,990 You have to do a little bit of that and we will do a little bit at the beginning of this course. 19 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:24,580 But you do actually build something of value and that's what we're going to do. 20 00:01:24,590 --> 00:01:26,350 And I'll show you that application in a moment. 21 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,290 So we're going to learn how to build a Web application using best practices in the go programming language. 22 00:01:32,290 --> 00:01:36,520 And we're also going to learn how to deploy this application to a live server and to make sure that 23 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:37,820 server is secure. 24 00:01:38,380 --> 00:01:41,290 So let's have a look at the application we're going to build. 25 00:01:42,420 --> 00:01:44,330 I'll switch over to my favorite Web browser. 26 00:01:44,830 --> 00:01:50,380 Here is a site for a fictional bed and breakfasts, which I have called the Fort Smith Bed and Breakfast. 27 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,940 And we're going to build a little website consisting of, I don't know, half a dozen pages or so. 28 00:01:55,540 --> 00:01:57,340 We'll do it in HTML5. 29 00:01:57,340 --> 00:01:59,370 We're also going to learn how to use bootstrap. 30 00:01:59,380 --> 00:02:04,630 We'll start with bootstrap for and then much later in the course, we'll upgrade to bootstrap five because 31 00:02:04,630 --> 00:02:08,050 bootstrap five Beta was released while I was putting the course content together. 32 00:02:08,350 --> 00:02:13,930 So you learned the things like how to do a navigation bar with drop down menu items, how to build individual 33 00:02:13,930 --> 00:02:20,110 pages, and also because this is a bed and breakfast site, you should be able to search for and book 34 00:02:20,110 --> 00:02:21,330 a room in this. 35 00:02:21,340 --> 00:02:22,600 So we'll be able to do that. 36 00:02:22,930 --> 00:02:24,940 So we'll be able to look for an arrival date. 37 00:02:24,970 --> 00:02:32,640 I'll choose something and say July to July the 8th search and it tells me two rooms are available. 38 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:38,050 I want to book the major suite and I can fill this form out and book the reservation. 39 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:43,090 And we'll also do things like contact pages with an embedded map and things like that. 40 00:02:43,090 --> 00:02:45,820 And authentication will be able to log in. 41 00:02:45,820 --> 00:02:48,070 So pretend that you're the property owner. 42 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:53,500 I can log in with the username and password that are type that write. 43 00:02:55,510 --> 00:03:02,110 Submit and once they've logged in, I can go to the back end to the dashboard for the property owner 44 00:03:02,410 --> 00:03:05,560 and look at things like how many new reservations do we have? 45 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,600 Let me browse all the reservations. 46 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:14,790 Let me look at an individual reservation and make changes to it, if necessary, to open and close dates. 47 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:21,250 So if I don't want to rent the major suite from the 16th to the 18th of January, then I can save those 48 00:03:21,250 --> 00:03:22,330 changes and it's blocked. 49 00:03:22,330 --> 00:03:25,210 Those off will also be sending email. 50 00:03:25,220 --> 00:03:31,480 We'll be doing all the things you have to do with a Web application and this will be done, written 51 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:31,970 and go. 52 00:03:31,990 --> 00:03:35,860 So here is the finished source code for this application. 53 00:03:36,310 --> 00:03:38,380 Now a word of caution. 54 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:45,340 I am going to make mistakes as I developed this application and I am not going to edit those mistakes 55 00:03:45,340 --> 00:03:50,080 out of the lectures because when you're programming, you make mistakes. 56 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:55,090 And there's nothing more frustrating than watching someone teach you how to program. 57 00:03:55,090 --> 00:03:57,410 And they appear to be an absolute genius. 58 00:03:57,670 --> 00:04:02,410 I'm not going to do that because honestly, any software developer spends a good portion of his or her 59 00:04:02,410 --> 00:04:07,240 day fixing either their own mistakes or somebody else's mistakes because we're human. 60 00:04:07,630 --> 00:04:14,740 But when we write our code, we're also going to write, as you'll see right here, for example, tests 61 00:04:14,740 --> 00:04:20,950 for all of our code to make sure that when we write our code that it's going to do exactly what we expect 62 00:04:20,950 --> 00:04:21,400 it to do. 63 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:25,780 And go has a robust testing environment built right into the language. 64 00:04:26,050 --> 00:04:28,020 So we'll be covering that sort of thing as well. 65 00:04:28,780 --> 00:04:30,650 So there's a fair bit of material to cover. 66 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:34,900 We have 150 plus lectures in this course and around 30 hours of content. 67 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,970 And I'll be adding to this as necessary when new functionality comes out. 68 00:04:39,970 --> 00:04:42,130 And I'll do my best to keep this course up to date. 69 00:04:42,790 --> 00:04:48,910 And if you encounter something that makes no sense or you discover that I've made a mistake somewhere 70 00:04:48,910 --> 00:04:49,580 in a lecture. 71 00:04:49,870 --> 00:04:54,280 Feel free to contact me and I'll make the necessary revisions to put the content up the way that it 72 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:54,790 should be. 73 00:04:54,940 --> 00:04:59,740 Because, as I said, we all make mistakes and that includes people recording lectures. 74 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:05,970 One other note, I am not a videographer and you're not going to find any fancy animations at the beginning, 75 00:05:05,970 --> 00:05:08,490 near the end of each lecture, because I don't think that's of much value. 76 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:10,390 I'm not trying to market this content. 77 00:05:10,630 --> 00:05:16,960 I'm trying to teach people how to build applications using Goldwing and to do so in a way that makes 78 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:18,040 absolute sense. 79 00:05:18,550 --> 00:05:19,380 So let's get started.