Python on the Backend

Name: Python on the Backend
Price: 69.99 USD
Rating: 4.0 (983 reviews)

Learn python back end development, build a website or APIs in Python, designed for students with Mac or Windows

(983 ratings)

30,134 students

Created by Hussein Nasser

Last updated 2/2024

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What you'll learn

Build cool web applications and APIs for other clients to consume
Learn how to serve a basic website with Python as the back end
Turn your existing Python libraries into web APIs to be consumed by other developers with other languages
Install, use and deploy Jupyter Notebooks
Learn how to Implement Load Balancing for your Backend Python services
Learn Backend Database programming with Python and PostgresSQL: connect, query, write and commit transactions.

Requirements

Able to understand basic programming principles

Description

Do you know Python and want to take it to the next level? How about writing a website in Python, or an API so your fellow developers can consume in JSON over simple HTTP. With the boom of microservices and API, developers who are used to working with Python writing scripts can now take their knowledge to the backend. This course will teach you the basic of web servers, how to setup the Python Web server and write interesting cool applications on the backend. By the end of the course you will be read to take on the world and write your own services and APIs, read and write from databases, do sophisticated load balancing on your Python services, work with Jupyter notebooks and much much more!

Who this course is for:

Beginner Python developers interested in building HTTP web APIs in Python
Experienced Python developers who want to expose their Python libraries as a web service for other developers
Data scientists who want to do heavy computational workload on the backend using vanilla Python or Jupyter notebooks
Developers who want to use Python to build APIs that write to a backend database

Featured review

Bruno L.

18 courses

9 reviews

4 years ago

The course starts with a very simple example of a python web app and extends it step by step. In this way, some of the very basic concepts like http request and response, or URL paths and parameters became clearer to me. The list of requesthandlers of the tornado framework is slim and clear and the postman app is a very useful tool to test http messages. I am glad I know these tools, now. Last but not least it is fun to listen to you, Hussein. Thank you!

Hussein Nasser

Software Engineer, Author

4.7 Instructor Rating
21,467 Reviews
180,287 Students
10 Courses

My name is Hussein and I’m a software engineer. My software journey started around 1998 when my uncle gave me a book titled `Learn Programming and Visual Basic 2.0`. That book made me realized that I enjoy the craft of building software. Using every medium available I would talk about software in a form of bulletin boards, blogs, books, courses, podcasts, and videos.

These days I run a YouTube channel where I cover software engineering topics with a focus on backend tech. I discuss databases, proxies, security, networking, protocols, and programming. I also cover recent news and current events in the field of software.

I specialize in the field of geographic information systems (or GIS for short). Since 2005, I helped many organizations in the Middle East implement Esri GIS by designing and building mapping apps to streamline their workflows. I wrote five books on Esri’s technologies and I've been a principal engineer there since 2015.

Using software to solve interesting problems is one of the fascinating things I really enjoy. Feel free to contact me on my social media channels to ask questions or share interesting problems. I would love to hear it!