Back-end web development in Django

Key Learnings

• Integration of Object-Relational Databases with Python
• Basic ORM functions and Database management
• Authentication
• API Design and Development
• App development in Python with FastAP

Target Group
Experienced: Junior backend developers, frontend developers

Basic Python including:

• Basic logic: if/else, try/except, for/while
• Data types: list, int, float, string, dict, set, etc...
• Object Oriented Programming: Functions and Classes
• Basic Familiarity with Unix-based command-line
• Basic Familiarity with Version-Control like Git (NOT Mandatory)
• API basics (NOT Mandatory)
• REST (post, get, delete, etc...)
• Database Basics (NOT Mandatory)
• Basic SQL queries
• Data Modeling / ORM

Week 1:

• Introduction to Git
• Introduction to Object-Relational Databases
• Object-Oriented Python - Revisited ○ Introduction to ORM
• Database Management and best-practices

Week 2:

• Introduction to HTTP
• RESTful API fundamentals
• Encryption basics
• Server Architectures: On-Prem vs. Remote vs. Serverless
• Introduction to Docker

Week 3:

• Introduction to Authentication
• Security best practices
• More advanced ORM and Data Modeling
• Unit Testing
• Intro to Technical Documentation

Week 4:

• Collaborative work with Git
• Deployment and DevOps basics
• Performance Optimization
• Serving a frontend
• Examples of Projects
• Students complete their own API backend app in Python!

Technologies:
Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, SQL, Docker, Heroku, AWS / GCP, Nine.ch

Target Group;
Experienced: Junior backend developers, frontend developers

Result:
Start-To-Finish Web-application for serving data via REST API