IIT Bombay has introduced a free online course on PHP and MySQL. Interested candidates can access the course on the SWAYAM platform. It is an FDP course approved by AICTE and is in the form of spoken tutorials. The course content is self-explanatory and will last for about 15 weeks. The study materials for the course are available in both audio and video form. 

Mr Kannan M Moudgalya, a professor at the IIT Bombay is the instructor of this course. He holds a degree in B Tech from IIT Madras along with M Tech and PhD in chemical engineering from Rice University. The complete course is supported by National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, HR Ministry, Government of India.  

Benefits of a free online course on PHP and MySQL

The entire course consists of 57 audio-video spoken tutorials that can help participants to learn the PHP programming language. Below mentioned are few benefits of learning PHP and MySQL.

• Learning PHP can help participants to develop e-commerce websites and CMS. 

• Social media site like Facebook with over a billion users is built on PHP and MySQL.

• Both the programming languages have a huge user and development community. 

• Freelance developers prefer to work on PHP and MySQL for website development.

• PHP and MySQL provide great speed, performance and data protection. 

Who can enrol for this free online course?

This course will benefit the below-mentioned candidates the most

• Software professional both freshers as well as experienced, trainers and developers.

• Participants who are actively involved in research work.

• Lastly, computer science and IT undergraduates and post-graduates 

What is the process to register for this course on the SWAYAM platform?

• Candidates who are interested to enrol for this course will first have to visit the official site and then click on the register tab to fill in the required details. 

• They can also sign in using their Google, Facebook or Microsoft account.

• Once they fill in all the details and verify their email id, their account will become active.