Add a new Career Path: API Web Development (Python3 Edition) [With new courses]

Community Feedback & Requests
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It would be great to get a new Career Path specificly looking at API Development and linking code with database structures. This Career Path could be completed using a number of languages however i’ve chosen Python3.

This has a similar structure as Data Science but the modular elements at the end vary specificly for APIs.

Main Courses

  1. The Importance of Data and SQL Basics
  2. SQL: Basics
  3. SQL: Intermediate
  4. Introduction to Postgres SQL [NEW]
  5. Go off platform: An introduction to AWS [NEW]
  6. Python Functions and Logic
  7. Python Lists and Loops
  8. Advanced Python
  9. [VIDEO] Introduction to HTTP and API [NEW]
  10. Python3 Module: Requests [NEW]
  11. Python3 Module: oAuth [NEW]
  12. Python3 Module: postgresql [NEW]
  13. Build an API pt1 - Echo API [NEW]
  14. Setting up endpoints using AWS [NEW]
  15. Build an API pt2 - Contacting popular open source APIs [NEW]
  16. Final Project - Building an API off platform from scratch [NEW]

Supplementary Courses
17. Security Best Practice - Looking at how to store sensitive data [NEW]
18. Security Best Practice - Looking at how to contact other systems without adding username/password in code [NEW]

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+1 ! super useful and critical in today’s tech industry!

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Couldn’t agree more. As I’ve started attending hackathons, I’ve had to learn backend on the fly to make my Python skills useful to teammates. A course or Skill Path for this purpose would help greatly.

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Heya! Zoe from the Curriculum team here. Keep your eyes peeled for some very relevant content to come out over the next couple of weeks. As always, appreciate hearing ideas about what to teach next!

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I have not seen it yet :disappointed:, I want to do a FULL STACK PYTHON instead of FULL STACK JS

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Totally fair! We have a lot more content that we can build before we release a Full-Stack Career Path in Python, but! We are releasing a Build Web Apps with Django Skill Path in a few months (just started production). The author has offered to share a draft of the syllabi once it’s finalized so you can get a sense of what will be coming.

We know folks are eager to do more web development with Python so in the meantime, check out our Build Web Apps with Flask Skill Path - another framework that uses Python for web.

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I need this for my career!