Curriculum
The Complete 30-Chapter Roadmap
A comprehensive sequence explicitly designed to build real-world engineering resilience.
Part I
Foundations & Core Skills
01
How Modern Applications Really Work
02
Setting Up Your Development Environment
03
Your First API Call
Free Chapter
04
Safe and Reliable API Requests
05
HTTP Methods - Beyond Reading Data
06
Working with Complex JSON Structures
07
Using API Keys Safely
08
Coordinating Multiple APIs
09
Production Error Handling
10
Advanced JSON Processing
11
News Aggregator Case Study
12
API Data Validation
13
Production-Ready Weather Dashboard Capstone
Build Milestone
Part II
Full-Stack Integration
14
OAuth and Authentication Fundamentals
Free Chapter
15
Database Fundamentals with SQLite
Free Chapter
16
Building the Spotify Music Time Machine
17
Flask Web Development & Building Your Dashboard
18
Building Complete Dashboard Features
19
Testing Your Application
20
Deployment and Portfolio Presentation
Live URL Milestone
Part III
Professional API Techniques
21
File Uploads and Binary Data
22
Webhooks and Real-Time APIs
23
Asynchronous API Calls
Part IV
Production & Cloud
24
From SQLite to PostgreSQL
25
Migrating the Music Time Machine to PostgreSQL
26
Building Your Own REST API
27
Containerization and Local Orchestration
28
AWS Production Deployment
29
Production Operations and Automation
30
Capstone Project - Building Your Production API
Scale Milestone