This course will teach you, assuming no prior coding knowledge, how to develop back end web applications the way professional coders do in the top internet startups. How do I know this? Because I’ve been leading tech teams in both large enterprise as well as startup companies in New York City for the past 15 years.

I have seen a lot of courses and free tutorials and I can tell you 90% of them just teach bad habits while promising to turn you into a real “web developer”. But let me tell you a reality: There’s no such thing as a web developer these days. You’re either a back end web applications developer, a front end application developer or the so-called (and rare) full stack web developer which includes the other two. However there are so many technologies to master in both the backend and frontend areas that full-stacks (or “web developers”) are a rarity in professional environments — You’re either a back end or a front end web developer.

This course doesn’t promise to turn you into a professional back end developer after you complete it…but it will give you a good foundation from where to start and continue your training, knowing the right path to become a real professional backend web applications developer using Python. My goal is to make a second course, which would introduce more advanced back end concepts and then start the front end courses (basic and advanced) soon after that.

The course goes through a step by step process of developing web applications, teaching you the Python basics for web development, introducing Flask and using Cloud9 as your development environment. It then moves to explore SQL databases, using MySQL and finally showing you how to develop a blogging application using all these learnings.

Best of all, you don’t need to install anything as we will use a revolutionary online web development environment that essentially gives you your own Linux web server with database capabilities! All you need to have is a browser and internet connection and it’s completely free to you.

At the end of the course students will be challenged with a final project where all the course material will need to be used to complete it. Students that finish the final project will be eligible for special future promotions.

Finally, you will learn how to run your application using Docker Containers, one of the hottest new technologies that allow developers to write their applications and deploy easily to a number of cloud hosting platforms and scale them indefinitely.

Course Curriculum

Introduction
StartIntroduction (1:31)
StartRoadmap and Requirements (1:53)
Your Development Environment
StartYour Python Flask Development Environment (0:38)
StartInstalling Python3 on Mac with Homebrew (1:04)
StartInstalling Python3 on Windows 10 with Chocolatey (1:32)
StartThe Cloud-based Python Development Environment (1:17)
StartVirtual Environments (0:38)
StartWindows and Mac Virtualenv Setup (2:09)
StartPythonAnywhere Virtualenv Setup (1:06)
StartActivation and Deactivation (1:08)
StartInstalling Flask (2:07)
Say Hello World
StartThe Code Editor (0:43)
StartHello World (5:00)
StartRunning The Application(Windows and Mac) (1:53)
StartRunning The Application(PythonAnywhere) (3:14)
StartDebugging Our Application (1:08)
StartDebugging On Windows and Mac (0:53)
StartDebugging On PythonAnywhere (1:26)
StartThe Debug Stack (1:00)
StartRouting (3:14)
StartTemplates (6:38)
StartThe Url Function (2:24)
StartThe Static Folder (2:18)
StartTemplate Inheritance (4:24)
StartIntroduction To Forms (9:36)
StartCookies And Sessions (5:46)
StartConfiguration Management (2:52)
StartPython Dot Env For Windows And Mac (2:12)
StartPython Dot Env For PythonAnywhere (2:10)
Setting up our Database
StartSetting Up Our Database (5:07)
StartInstalling MySQL (0:11)
StartInstalling MySQL On Mac With Homebrew (3:09)
StartInstalling MySQL On Windows With Chocolatey (2:45)
StartSetting Up MySQL On PythonAnywhere (1:45)
StartMVC And The Object Relational Mapper (1:56)
A Visitor Counter
StartOur First Database Driven Application (0:36)
StartInitial Application Setup on Mac and Windows (1:25)
StartInitial Application Setup on PythonAnywhere (2:17)
StartOur Application Libraries (1:02)
StartThe Environment Settings (1:47)
StartThe Application Factory (2:41)
StartBuilding Modules with Blueprints (1:24)
StartOur First Blueprint (2:22)
StartThe Counter Model (2:27)
StartAn Introduction to Migrations (5:29)
StartDatabase Operations from the Shell (5:59)
StartThe Page Views Counter Application (2:16)
StartSetting Up Our Test Infrastructure (8:14)
StartOur First Test (3:49)
Flogger : A Personal Blog Application
StartFlogger, a Simple Flask Blog (1:02)
StartInitial Application Setup on Mac and Windows (1:02)
StartInitial Application Setup on PythonAnywhere (1:42)
StartOur Application Libraries (1:32)
StartThe Core Application (1:55)
StartSetting up the Database (1:41)
StartCreating the Author App (1:10)
StartThe Author Model (1:04)
StartThe Author Model Migration (1:36)
StartTesting the Author Model in the Shell (1:37)
StartThe Author Registration Form (3:25)
StartThe Author Registration Template (4:05)
StartAuthor Form Validation (4:32)
StartA Better Looking Application (2:48)
StartProcessing the Author Registration Form (2:44)
StartChecking the Record Creation on the Database (1:37)
StartUsing PDB (3:08)
StartCustom Form Validators (1:47)
StartThe Author Login (1:07)
StartChecking the Login Credentials in the Database (2:08)
StartAuthor Session (2:04)
StartLogging Out the Author (0:44)
StartFlash Messages (2:09)
StartUnit Testing the Author App (3:50)
StartLogin Tests (1:21)
StartThe Nav Bar (1:34)
StartThe Blog and Category Model (8:09)
StartThe Blog Post Form (1:37)
StartBlog Post Template View (2:01)
StartBlog Post View Database Processing (4:47)
StartThe Login Decorator (3:27)
StartBlog Article and Markdown (2:28)
StartBlog Post Tests (1:23)
StartBlog Home Page (7:34)
StartUploading Images (7:34)
StartEditing Posts (5:42)
StartDeleting Posts (1:45)
StartBlog Tags (7:27)
StartFilter by Category or Tags (4:42)
The Final Project
StartThe Final Project (1:04)
Conclusion
StartConclusion (0:23)