Stone River eLearning – From Zero to Flask: The Professional Way

Stone River eLearning – From Zero to Flask: The Professional Way

From Zero to Flask: The Professional Way

Develop back end web apps

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.

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Course Curriculum

Introduction

• Introduction (1:31)
• Roadmap and Requirements (1:53)

Your Development Environment

• Your Python Flask Development Environment (0:38)
• Installing Python3 on Mac with Homebrew (1:04)
• Installing Python3 on Windows 10 with Chocolatey (1:32)
• The Cloud-based Python Development Environment (1:17)
• Virtual Environments (0:38)
• Windows and Mac Virtualenv Setup (2:09)
• PythonAnywhere Virtualenv Setup (1:06)
• Activation and Deactivation (1:08)
• Installing Flask (2:07)

Say Hello World

• The Code Editor (0:43)
• Hello World (5:00)
• Running The Application(Windows and Mac) (1:53)
• Running The Application(PythonAnywhere) (3:14)
• Debugging Our Application (1:08)
• Debugging On Windows and Mac (0:53)
• Debugging On PythonAnywhere (1:26)
• The Debug Stack (1:00)
• Routing (3:14)
• Templates (6:38)
• The Url Function (2:24)
• The Static Folder (2:18)
• Template Inheritance (4:24)
• Introduction To Forms (9:36)
• Cookies And Sessions (5:46)
• Configuration Management (2:52)
• Python Dot Env For Windows And Mac (2:12)t
• Python Dot Env For PythonAnywhere (2:10)

Setting up our Database

• Setting Up Our Database (5:07)
• Installing MySQL (0:11)
• Installing MySQL On Mac With Homebrew (3:09)
• Installing MySQL On Windows With Chocolatey (2:45)
• Setting Up MySQL On PythonAnywhere (1:45)
• MVC And The Object Relational Mapper (1:56)

A Visitor Counter

• Our First Database Driven Application (0:36)
• Initial Application Setup on Mac and Windows (1:25)
• Initial Application Setup on PythonAnywhere (2:17)
• Our Application Libraries (1:02)
• The Environment Settings (1:47)
• The Application Factory (2:41)
• Building Modules with Blueprints (1:24)
• Our First Blueprint (2:22)
• The Counter Model (2:27)
• An Introduction to Migrations (5:29)
• Database Operations from the Shell (5:59)
• The Page Views Counter Application (2:16)
• Setting Up Our Test Infrastructure (8:14)
• Our First Test (3:49)

Flogger : A Personal Blog Application

• Flogger, a Simple Flask Blog (1:02)
• Initial Application Setup on Mac and Windows (1:02)
• Initial Application Setup on PythonAnywhere (1:42)
• Our Application Libraries (1:32)
• The Core Application (1:55)
• Setting up the Database (1:41)
• Creating the Author App (1:10)
• The Author Model (1:04)
• The Author Model Migration (1:36)
• Testing the Author Model in the Shell (1:37)
• The Author Registration Form (3:25)
• The Author Registration Template (4:05)
• Author Form Validation (4:32)
• A Better Looking Application (2:48)
• Processing the Author Registration Form (2:44)
• Checking the Record Creation on the Database (1:37)
• Using PDB (3:08)
• Custom Form Validators (1:47)
• The Author Login (1:07)
• Checking the Login Credentials in the Database (2:08)
• Author Session (2:04)
• Logging Out the Author (0:44)
• Flash Messages (2:09)
• Unit Testing the Author App (3:50)
• Login Tests (1:21)
• The Nav Bar (1:34)
• The Blog and Category Model (8:09)
• The Blog Post Form (1:37)
• Blog Post Template View (2:01)
• Blog Post View Database Processing (4:47)
• The Login Decorator (3:27)
• Blog Article and Markdown (2:28)
• Blog Post Tests (1:23)
• Blog Home Page (7:34)
• Uploading Images (7:34)
• Editing Posts (5:42)
• Deleting Posts (1:45)
• Blog Tags (7:27)
• Filter by Category or Tags (4:42)

The Final Project

• The Final Project (1:04)

Conclusion

• Conclusion (0:23)

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