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From Zero to Flask: The Professional Way
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4 hours 2 minutes 
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About From Zero to Flask: The Professional Way
Introduction
Roadmap and Requirements
Your Python Flask Development Environment
Installing Python3 on Mac with Homebrew
Installing Python3 on Windows 10 with Chocolatey
The Cloud-based Python Development Environment
Virtual Environments
Windows and Mac Virtualenv Setup
PythonAnywhere Virtualenv Setup
Activation and Deactivation
Installing Flask
The Code Editor
Hello World
Running the Application (Windows and Mac)
Running the Application (PythonAnywhere)
Debugging our Application
Debugging on Windows and Mac
Debugging on PythonAnywhere
The Debug Stack
Routing
Templates
The url_for() Function
The Static Folder
Template Inheritance
Introduction to Forms
Cookies and Sessions
Configuration Management
Python Dot Env for Windows and Mac
Python Dot Env for PythonAnywhere
An Introduction to Databases
Installing MySQL
Installing MySQL on Mac with Homebrew
Installing MySQL on Windows with Chocolatey
Setting up MySQL on PythonAnywhere
MVC and the Object Relational Mapper
Our First Data Driven Application
Initial Application Setup on Mac and Windows
Initial Application Setup on PythonAnywhere
Our Application Libraries
The Environment Settings
The Application Factory
Building Modules with Blueprints
Our First Blueprint
The Counter Model
An Introduction to Migrations
Database Operations from the Shell
The Page Views Counter Application
Setting Up Our Test Infrastructure
Our First Test
Flogger, a Simple Flask Blog
Initial Application Setup on Mac and Windows
Initial Application Setup on PythonAnywhere
Our Application Libraries
The Core Application
Setting up the Database
Creating the Author App
The Author Model
The Author Model Migration
Testing the Author Model in the Shell
The Author Registration Form
The Author Registration Template
Author Form Validation
A Better Looking Application
Processing the Author Registration Form
Checking the Record Creation on the Database
Using PDB
Custom Form Validators
The Author Login
Checking the Login Credentials in the Database
Author Session
Logging Out the Author
Flash Messages
Unit Testing the Author App
Login Tests
The Nav Bar
The Blog Post and Category Models
The Blog Post Form
Blog Create Post Template and View
Blog Post View Database Processing
The Login Decorator
Blog Article and Markdown
Blog Post Tests
Blog Home Page and Pagination
Uploading Images
Editing Posts
Deleting Posts and Writing the Edit and Delete Tests
Blog Tags and Tests
Filter by Category or Tags
The Final Project
Conclusion
What You Will Learn?
- *** Learn Flask Development using the latest Flask version 1.0.2 ***.
- 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”..
- This course doesn’t promise to turn you into a professional back end developer after you complete it -- it takes much more than the 4 hours of of this course (and probably hundreds of hours of self-practicing) to do that, but it will give you a solid foundation from where to start and continue your training, knowing the right path to become a real professional backend web applications developer using Python..
- The course goes through a step by step process of setting up your environment, introducing Flask. 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 own a computer to take this course, if you don’t own one. You can complete this course from an internet or cyber cafe, as we teach how to to use both locally installed files or an online coding platform..
- 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..
- If you are interested in learning how to code from zero and without prior knowledge, but do it using best industry practices towards becoming a professional backend web developer, this is the course for you..
- The course is divided in 7 sections:.
- Introduction.
- Your Development Environment.
- Say Hello World.
- Setting up our Database.
- A Visitor Counter.
- Flogger: A Personal Blog Application.
- Final Project.
- The course has more than 4 hours of video tutorials as well as the source code of all the lessons, so that you can see exactly what the whole project looks like in each stage..
- The course can take anywhere from 7 days to a month to complete based on how much material the student completes daily..
- Additionally we’re constantly updating the course, adding contents thanks to the feedback of our students..
- So stop looking around and start the right path to becoming a professional Python backend web developer with this course!.