Core Topics

• Python data types, control flow, comprehensions, and generators
• Functions: first-class functions, decorators, closures, *args/**kwargs
• Object-oriented Python: classes, inheritance, dunder methods, MRO
• File I/O, context managers, exception handling patterns
• Modules, packages, and virtual environments with venv
• Git workflow: branching strategy, pull requests, code review etiquette

Tools & Tech

Learning Outcomes

• Write idiomatic, object-oriented Python programs using decorators, generators, and clean package structure ready for a web framework.

Core Topics

• Django project structure: apps, settings, URL routing, views
• Models: field types, relationships (ForeignKey, ManyToMany), migrations
• Django ORM: QuerySets, filtering, aggregation, select_related, prefetch_related
• Django Admin: registering models, list displays, search, and actions
• Template engine: template inheritance, context, filters, and tags
• Static files, media uploads, and environment-based settings
• PostgreSQL connection, indexing basics, and query optimisation

Tools & Tech

Learning Outcomes

• Build a Django application backed by a normalised PostgreSQL schema, with migrations, admin management, and efficient ORM queries.

Core Topics

• Serializers: ModelSerializer, nested serializers, custom validation
• APIView, GenericView, and ViewSet class-based views
• Router registration for automatic URL generation
• Pagination, filtering (django-filter), and search backends
• Token authentication, session auth, and JWT with djangorestframework-simplejwt
• API versioning strategies and content negotiation
• Generating OpenAPI documentation with drf-spectacular

Tools & Tech

Learning Outcomes

• Design and document a production-ready REST API using DRF with serializers, authentication, filtering, pagination, and OpenAPI docs.

Core Topics

• FastAPI project structure: routers, dependencies, lifespan events
• Path operations, query params, request bodies with Pydantic v2 models
• Dependency injection: shared resources, database sessions, auth guards
• SQLAlchemy 2 async ORM with PostgreSQL
• Alembic migrations with FastAPI
• Background tasks, streaming responses, and file uploads
• FastAPI vs Django REST Framework: when to choose which

Tools & Tech

Learning Outcomes

• Build a fully async FastAPI service with Pydantic validation, SQLAlchemy ORM, Alembic migrations, and auto-generated interactive API docs.

Core Topics

• JWT authentication: access/refresh token flow, token blacklisting
• Permission classes: IsAuthenticated, IsAdminUser, custom permissions
• OAuth2 social login overview (Google, GitHub) with django-allauth
• Celery architecture: workers, brokers (Redis), beat scheduler
• Asynchronous task queues: email sending, PDF generation, data processing
• Monitoring Celery tasks with Flower
• Environment variable management with django-environ and python-decouple

Tools & Tech

Learning Outcomes

• Add JWT auth, asynchronous Celery task processing, and Redis-backed queues to a Django API — covering the complete production backend architecture.

Core Topics

• React functional components and hooks: useState, useEffect, useReducer
• TypeScript with React: typing props, state, API responses
• Consuming Django/FastAPI endpoints with Axios and interceptors
• Server-state management with React Query (TanStack Query)
• React Router for SPA navigation and protected routes
• Form handling with React Hook Form and Zod schema validation

Tools & Tech

Learning Outcomes

• Build a React TypeScript frontend that fetches, mutates, and caches data from your Python REST API with authentication, routing, and form validation.

Core Topics

• Docker fundamentals: Dockerfile for Django/FastAPI, multi-stage builds
• Docker Compose: orchestrating Django + PostgreSQL + Redis + Celery locally
• pytest and pytest-django: unit tests, fixtures, test database isolation
• Factory Boy for model factories; coverage.py for coverage reporting
• GitHub Actions CI: run tests, lint, build Docker image on every PR
• Deploying to Railway or Render: environment variables, health checks, custom domains
• Capstone project: live URL, Dockerised repo, GitHub Actions pipeline

Tools & Tech

Learning Outcomes

• Containerise a full stack Python application with Docker Compose, write a pytest test suite, and deploy it to a live URL via GitHub Actions CI/CD.