Python Backend Developer with Django

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Master Python backend using Django for your career goals. Build, deploy, and optimize scalable web apps with skills in API, database management, and security.
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What you'll learn

You'll gain a thorough understanding of backend development and the Django framework. You'll learn to build and deploy scalable web applications with Django, create and manage databases, design and develop APIs, and deploy Django projects to live servers. Though it is not strictly required, this course assumes basic familiarity with the framework, as it focuses on more advanced topics related to the tech industry.

Going through the course, you will:

  • Apply advanced QuerySet methods to fetch data from databases.
  • Use caching to improve application performance.
  • Explore the techniques and best practices for controlling web app database performance.
  • Design and develop APIs for data exchange.
  • Implement basic user authentication and security measures for guarding both your app and your API endpoints.
  • Test and debug Django applications.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to construct scalable web applications with Django, extending beyond small-scale projects and maintaining adaptability to projects of different sizes. You will also gain proficiency in creating and implementing APIs, overseeing your project's performance, ensuring security, and actively participating in the development and deployment of web projects.

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Master advanced engineering concepts through ambitious projects. Each project deepens your expertise and transforms you from an experienced engineer into an exceptional one.

Hypercar Service Center

From booking plane tickets to ordering pizza, web applications play an ever-increasing role in our daily lives. In this project, you'll use Django to create an application that manages the queue at a car service center.

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Food Blog Backend

Your great-grandmother asked you to copy all the recipes that she had been collecting in her notebook for several decades to “that computer of yours”. You don't like easy solutions, so you decided to build a recipe database. You will need to refresh your SQL knowledge to build a simple backend.

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Continuing education is a necessity of the 21st century. There are many courses and educational programs. To succeed in this business, you need good materials, good teachers, and good management. For now, let's create a service for storing and processing information about courses and students. Let's create a simple platform for students and teachers where you can add educational programs and form different reports and schedules.

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Topics covered by this course

Programming languages
73 topics
Fundamentals
64 topics
Backend
59 topics
Frontend
14 topics
Algorithms and Data Structures
8 topics
System administration and DevOps
6 topics

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DisparateBits
1 year ago
It was pretty good. Some of the material you will have to finish on your own as it did not come up for me during lessons or project stages, mostly Django-specific stuff like the ORM, DRF, but also algorithms/DSA.

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