Build a Backend REST API with Python & Django - Advanced (Udemy.com)

Amazing! I have learn a lot of new things, and consolidate with already a bit of previous hand on practice on Django. Only section I didnt do actually was the actually deploy of the server due to the AWS service (I didnt want to go throught the verification and whatsoever) nevertheless I did all the steps and check the material. If in a future I will need some guidelines I know where to come.

The course was exactly what I needed for learning how to build an API with Django. It was easy to follow throughout and covered important topics like CI/CD and deployment while still staying focused. I was easily able to apply some of these aspects to other projects I’m working on even in different languages, like setting up GitHub workflows for my Ruby on Rails API. As a test automation engineer I also thoroughly enjoyed the test driven development. The course did a good job of highlighting the value in that, and it also made it easy for me to ensure I was following along correctly.

The course was good. I feel however there were a lack of explanations on how things work or done. He glossed over some bits that I think required a deeper explanation for example know which modules to import for each view, serilaizer etc. A deeper dive into the documentation for this would have been apprecited. Follow alongs are in my opinion not the best way to learn. It takes the thinking away and you literally just regurgitate code. I have come from the Dr Angela Yu course 100 days of Python which was a much better learning experiance. We got assigned tasks that we had to do ourselves and encouraged to think of our own solution. In this course there is none of that. It just to follow along exactly how its done.

The course content was well-structured and covered all the essential topics in a clear and concise manner. The instructor did a fantastic job explaining complex concepts and provided practical examples that were easy to follow. I especially appreciated the hands-on projects, which allowed me to apply what I learned and gain practical experience. The provided resources and supplementary materials were very helpful in reinforcing the lessons. Thank you for a great learning experience!

this is an amazing course. great view into test driven development and how a django rest api is built. a few things are perhaps outdated but very few indeed and all are easy fixes you can find online in stack overflow/gpt help. would recommend this to everyone looking to learn django backend

I believe that the course is very well organized and Mark walks you very professionally through all the lectures. My favorite part of this course is "Test Driven Development" . Just as an idea, It might be better if the database model was more complex, with more fields and relationship. I very much appreciate the efforts made in building up this course. Thanks a lot Mark and keep up the good work .. Regard, Bahram

Mark is an Elite instructor & this course was one of the best I've taken on Udemy. If you're looking for a Django course, this is it! The course is extremely well-structured. Perfect balance of length, not too long or short. The material and the instructor are engaging, and straight to the point. I have learned so much valuable knowledge from mark & I have nothing but great things to say about this course. Thank you so much, Mark, for putting together this course & for having updated it. Looking forward to more of your content.

This course is kind of misleading because it's not very advanced. The instructor doesn't teach you how to do important things like complex queries using classes. Which is something you need to do if you want to do anything in a real project. As soon as you want to create a real world project, you immediately find yourself in a situation where you are reading endless documentation that only show you the simplest examples. If you want to know what the inherited methods are doing in the classes you are using, then you have to read the source code. Eventually, you'll be googling to no end and ending up in the abyss of despair that is stackoverflow. Obviously, I'm not a complete idiot (Though I can be sometimes) and I understand that this course is meant to show you a general idea of how to build a REST API before working on your own projects. But this course is supposed to be ADVANCED. I was expecting that he would go over all of the important things that you need in your own projects. This course doesn't even give you a basic idea of how to do things like complex queries (i.e. joining multiple tables and parsing them into JSON response from a single query in a single viewset) for a real project. Also, the instructor doesn't actually explain in detail what's happening as he is coding, but rather, he merely gives you false sense of competence by briefly summarizing the abstraction of his code. As the instructor types out the code he will tell you to wait for what it all means after he is done, but his explanations consists of literally reading what he types in an exasperated tone. This course has not only frustrated me to no end, it has wasted my time. I highly advise people to not take this course and just read the documentation. You will get farther and understand Django A LOT better on your own in a shorter amount of time.

One of the best courses I have taken. Probably because it was the right level for what I needed. Mark explains things quickly and thoroughly. I also found his resources attached to the lessons invaluable. I have taken two of Mark's courses and I am looking at his terraform deployment class now.

It was a lot of listening, coding, reasoning. On the certificate it states 8 hours but it felt a lot more than that. I worked consistently for three weeks. All the debugging of errors. I got my full worth but somehow when stated on the certificate that it is only 8 hours, it does not match the effort that I put in. I learnt a lot and I look forward to applying these skills. Thanks for your time for preparing this course. I am looking forward to doing your DevOps course.