Clinton has been teaching programming (and many other IT-related topics) for over 25 years at FE and HE level. He completed his Masters degree in IT at De Montfort University in Leicester in 1998, and has been there ever since as a Senior Lecturer. Having first downloaded PHP in 2000, he was invited to start teaching it in 2004.

He is currently delivering modules relating to the security of web systems; teaching PHP to final year students (Secure Web Application Development) and vulnerabilities of web applications (with pentesting) to second year and postgraduate students (Secure Web Systems). He also gets involved with industrial/commercial partnerships such as KTPs and consultancy, and has spent many happy months delivering degree modules in Malaysia, Singapore and China.

Any spare time is spent with his family, and his double basses.

Teaching (mostly) PHP

Clinton teaches students to produce good quality web applications with PHP which has proved to be a greater challenge than any other language paradigm he has taught, due to the wide range of technologies that need to be seamlessly combined, and the added requirement for an awareness of security issues. He currently teaches a final year degree module to students of a wide range of abilities and experience. Some of them have worked as PHP developers, others have some exposure to JSP or .NET, the remainder have C, Java or VB experience, according to their course.

To this end Clinton has implemented a series of exemplars covering different aspects of the paradigm, which have slowly coalesced into a proto-framework focussed on promoting good practice, at the same time being flexible enough to allow students to develop their own ideas.

This talk will present the main features of this framework, and also invite ideas/collaborations.

http://blip.tv/phpnw/phpnw11-clinton-ingrams-teaching-mostly-php-5871867

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