Backend Developer with Python

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Interact with relational databases. Review SQL and the Client-Server Model. Use Postgres, understand DBAPIs, and use psycopg2.

Learn to use SQLAlchemy and SQLAlchemy ORM to work with a relational database in Python.

Get to know Model.query and the SQLAlchemy Object Lifecycle to master how to query for and change records in a database.

Handle changes to your database schema over time using a version control system involving migration files.

Build out the ability to read and create todo items in our To-do app, handling changes from the database to the views.

Finish developing our To-Do app with update and delete functionality. Model relationships with To-Do lists.

In this lesson, you'll learn what APIs are, how they're implemented, and why they're important. We'll also dive into the concepts of Internet Protocols and REST.

In this lesson, you'll learn about HTTP—including methods, requests, responses and status codes— as well as how to set up a Flask app, and implement and test endpoints using Curl.

In this lesson, you'll learn about how Flask is extensible in itself to handle different kinds of methods, more complex endpoints, and to return formatted data to the client.

This lesson teaches students the benefits and purposes of testing an API, Test-Driven Development for APIs and implementing the tests using unittest.

To round out the course, students will consider and write API documentation and project documentation so their projects can be hosted, shared, and used by other developers with clarity.

Set the groundwork for understanding information security and refresh your understanding of the technologies used in future lessons.

Explore frequently used methods of identifying who is making requests on web systems. Implement modern software patterns to accomplish this goal across the stack.

Understand and overcome common pitfalls of the ubiquitous password authentication design pattern.

Limit access to specific resources or actions by restricting requests only to authorized request to particular users and groups of users. Implement role-based access controls (RBAC) across the stack.

Stay one step ahead of attackers by implementing a secure development process and knowing how to keep informed on the cutting edge of security research.

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