1.1 - Introduction 1.2 - Important Concepts 1.3 - Setting up our Developer Environment 1.4 - Packages and Virtual Environments 1.5 - Requirements.txt

2.1 - Django Project Setup 2.2 Getting Started with Version Control 2.3 - Creating our First View 2.4 - Creating a Template 2.5 - Templates Part 2

3.1 - Introduction to Data and Databases 3.2 - Database Models and Migrations 3.3 - Working with Models and Data 3.4 - Replacing our Mock Data 3.5 - CRUD on the Frontend

4.1 - Uploading Files and Serving Static Files 4.2 - Upload and Download Files with Model Forms 4.3 - Deploying Django to AWS Elastic Beanstalk 4.4 - Hello Postgres! Moving from SQLite 4.5 - Deploying to AWS with Postgres

5.1 - Migrations with Production Database 5.2 - Setting up EB CLI 5.3 - Setting up AWS S3 5.4 - Uploading and Downloading to S3 5.5 - Redeploying to AWS with Service Roles + Fixing Dependency Conflicts

6.1 - Intro to Django REST Framework 6.2 - Creating and Consuming a Detail API Endpoint 6.3 - Updating and Deleting Data 6.4 - Uploading Files with POST 6.5 - Authentication and Tokens

7.1 - A better JWT Understanding 7.2 - S3 Permissions for Media Files and Presigned URLs 7.3 - Foreign Keys and File Ownership 7.4 - Setting up a React Frontend Application 7.5 - Creating an Upload Form in React

8.1 - Using SSH to create a Production Superuser 8.2 - User Registration API endpoint 8.3 - Deploying our React App and Custom Domains with Route 53 8.4 - Setting up CloudFront and HTTPS 8.5 - HTTPS with Elastic Beanstalk Load Balancer

The median backend engineer salary is $170,000 according to the 2024 Stack Overflow Survey.

Truthfully, backend development is hard. Most people are unwilling to put the effort in. Backend development is also in very high demand as it is essential for all application development.

By becoming a backend developer, you're picking up a skill that very few people have and a skill that companies desperately need. This is exactly where you want to be.

Thankfully, this course does the heavy lifting and delivers the essentials to get you there.

Truly, the full stack developer is my target audience. Because full stack development is so broad, it can be helpful to focus on just one area of development. This will allow you to learn at a deeper level.

Yes. Some development experience is ideal so you do not have to spend too much effort on learning the basics, but you certainly can learn everything as you go.

I would classify this as a course that will bring you to an intermediate / professional level of development. Although this may be considered advanced if you are brand new, for most this will be intermediate and give you general backend proficiency. From here, you can study more tech in advanced detail.

I’m confident you’ll find value in this course, but if for any reason you find this course is not for you, we offer a 30 day refund policy from time of purchase.

A big focus of my teaching is to teach principles that will go beyond a single language. That being said, you may want to know exactly what tools we’ll be using.

The primary language will be Python and the Django web development framework. We will be using Git and Github for source control, SQLite, Postgres and DynamoDB for databases, and will be deploying everything to AWS.

We’ll also explore front end development API consumption with JavaScript + React.

This course was produced in April of 2022 and utilizes Django 4. Unless there are serious major changes, this course should be helpful for future versions of Python and Django as well.

Yes. You have permanent access. You can come back and watch any of the lessons later.