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

Finally create that App + fully-functioning user database in this crash course to building a REST API

( 309 Reviews )

Created by: Mark Winterbottom

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

How to create the most important part of any user application
How to confidently use some of the most in-demand full stack technologies today
How to create a local development server from scratch
How to create a brand new Django project with sqlite database
How to build your own browsable, self documenting REST API
Handle user registration, login, and status updates in your app with your very own REST API

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Overall Score : 90 / 100

Course Description

Welcome to the beginner course on How to Build a REST API from scratch, using Django, Django REST Framework, Python, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Atom, and ModHeaders. You'll also learn how to deploy your dev server to AWS!
This course is made with Django 2.
2 and Django REST Framework 3.
9.
The skills taught in this course are absolutely essential for creating successful products that users love and cant live without.
Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, you name it. These apps all have their own backend REST APIs that handle millions of call requests everyday. You cannot build a successful app without a backend REST API.
Not only is it essential to whatever app or MVP you are building -- the skills you learn in this course will make you a kickass developer in the workplace.
If youre a front-end developer and you take this course, youll be able to speak backend with your colleagues and understand whats going on under the hood of all your projects, increasing your confidence and earning the respect of your peers.
If youre a newbie developer or just starting out in your career, this course will give you a very practical foundation to building your portfolio and increasing your earning potential. In this course you will learn the best-practice way of building your very own REST API.
You will learn how to create a local development server and test your code each step of the way.
Whether youre looking to gain a bit of experience with backend development, or youre looking to create a REST API to turn your app idea into a reality - then this course is for you.
By the end of this course you will have built a fully functioning REST API that can handle:
Creating and updating user profiles.
Login and authentication.
Posting status updates.
Viewing status update feeds.
Youll also have a solid foundation to understanding one of the most complex components in software development.
Who this course is for:
This course is for developers who want build a REST API either for their app, MVP or business idea.
This course is for frontend developers who want to learn backend.

Time: 5h

Instructor Details

Mark Winterbottom

4.5 Rating
309 Reviews

Hey, Im Mark! Im an award-winningfull-stack software engineer with a passion for learning and teaching new technologies.
This passion started at 12-years-old when I taught myself how to make Windows batch scripts. Little did I know that hacking around on my computer back thenwould turn into a life-long passion for programming.
I went on to complete a degree in Computer Systems Networking at Nottingham Trent University, and worked in various developer roles at multinational corporations and startups.
I always believed that the final step to learning is teaching. And so I started a software development blog and consultancy firm called London App Developer. My work has been featured in the Daily Mail, Mashable, TechCrunch, the Huffington Post, the Mirror and Gizmodo, and over 30,000 developers read my programming tutorials every month.
My goal for teaching on Udemy is to help developers make a better living through their code. Whether thats by building new systems and tools to make the world a better place, or just to make their lives easier. If I can help them to increase their earning power, so they can better support their communities and loved ones, then even better. :)
My specialities are Python, Django, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, but because Im full-stack, I can work my way around most programming languages and frameworks.
I live in London, England with my wife and business partner, Brooke.

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By Alejandro Exequiel Hernndez Lara on 11/14/2020

Very good course, well explained and precise in its content. I will definitely take the next level.

By Juan Livinalli on 11/14/2020

The Teacher does not explain in enough detail the concepts behind the class

By Andrew on 11/14/2020

Very good basic introduction to developing a Django REST API. I would love a course where this API is then integrated into a working web app/native app using different stacks (like React.js).

By Sivanageswara Rao Anumala on 11/14/2020

its not at all useful for beginners, who are having good knowledge on Django rest API's already , it will help for them.
No use for beginners wasting of time and money!!

By Akash Damle on 11/7/2020

I'm really grateful for this

By Jonathan Kaneshiro on 11/7/2020

Learned a lot from this course! The instructor was very thorough.

By Matthias Zach on 11/7/2020

Great course - sometimes a bit fast. I have experience as PHP web developer so I had no problem following the course but still, some parts feel a bit rushed and some of the magic that django and/or django rest framework does for us behind the scenes could be explained a bit more.
That said, you will learn everything you need to get started building you own (simple) rest API.

By Troy Moehlenpah on 10/21/2020

So far so good.

By Sathish Singh on 10/20/2020

Good one

By Patricia Rollins on 10/18/2020

This course was extremely helpful to me and Mark is an excellent instructor. I learned a great deal and feel more confident about building a django REST api app. I hope you create another similar course involving React and/or Vue :-).

By Jeries Haddad on 10/12/2020

I love it so far. It is amazing, exactly what I needed because the instructor also explains all the important stuff regarding development server, Vagrant, virtual environment and so on. I'm very happy so far, if I could I would give it even more than 5/5 stars.

By Jobin Wilson on 10/2/2020