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Backend Development training
Build the server side of applications: APIs, authentication, databases and security.
Course overview
Learn to build the server side of applications: the logic, APIs and databases that power websites and apps. You will build secure, working back ends and connect them to a database.
Requirements
- Basic programming knowledge
- A computer
- Familiarity with the web
What you will learn
- Build server-side applications and APIs
- Design and query databases
- Add user authentication and authorisation
- Secure and deploy a backend
Practical projects
- A REST API with a database
- A user system with login and roles
Skills you will gain
- Server-side programming
- APIs
- SQL and databases
- Authentication
- Security
- Deployment
Career and application opportunities
- Junior backend developer
- API developer
- Full-stack developer (with frontend skills)
Curriculum
1Backend foundations
- How servers and clients communicate
- HTTP and APIs
- Choosing a language and framework
- Setting up your environment
2Server-side programming
- Routing and requests
- Handling forms and data
- Validation
- Error handling
3Databases
- Designing tables
- Connecting an app to a database
- CRUD operations
- Relationships and queries
4Authentication and security
- Password hashing
- Sessions and tokens
- Roles and permissions
- Common attacks and defences
5APIs and deployment
- Building a REST API
- Testing an API
- Deploying a backend
- Capstone project
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