Web Developer Bootcamp with Flask and Python in 2024

Become a Full Stack Web Developer using Flask, Python, HTML, CSS, and MongoDB! Fully updated for 2023 and beyond.

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Udemy

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English

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Web Development

What you will learn

Build complete, dynamic websites for your freelance projects or business

Design, develop, and deploy full-stack web apps using Flask, Python, HTML, and CSS

Create your own portfolio website to showcase all your projects

Become a true HTML and CSS professional without the need for complicated JavaScript, or stop-gap solutions like Bootstrap and jQuery

Publish your websites online with Heroku for free

Connect your Python applications to a MongoDB database on the cloud

Allow your users to sign up and log in to your applications

Change the content of your web app's pages dynamically depending on the user that is logged in

Why take this course?

Welcome to the Web Developer Bootcamp with Flask and Python! In this course, you'll learn how to build and deploy dynamic websites using Python, Flask, MongoDB, HTML, and CSS!

If you want to share your projects online and become a full stack web developer, you're in the right place! I will teach you the latest and most popular technologies, including Python 3.10, Flask, HTML 5, and CSS 3.

I won't teach you jQuery or Bootstrap since those are old technologies! Instead, I focus on giving you a solid HTML and CSS foundation, so that you can be truly independent, and build anything you want.

I'll help you write many real-world projects that test your skills and build your understanding. By the end of the course, you'll be able to design and code any feature on any website!

This course beats attending any live bootcamp or workshop because I've put hundreds of hours into planning, recording, and editing. Plus you get lifetime access, and I provide outstanding support—I answer dozens of questions every day!

Why learn Flask?

Flask is a microframework for web development, written in Python.

It's lightweight and simple, so you can start using it straight away. As you go through the course and learn more about it, you'll realize it's also really powerful!

Flask provides everything we need for building websites: a good way to organize our apps, helpers for user authentication, a large selection of plugins and extensions to do dozens of other things, and much more!

What you'll learn!

Here's an overview of what you'll learn in this course:

A super-strong HTML 5 and CSS 3 foundation
How to plan your software projects and make them successful
Design websites using design software like Figma
Semantic HTML, and how to code in HTML like a professional
Build backend applications with Flask and Python
Make your HTML websites dynamic with Flask and Jinja2
Become a CSS professional: learn about flex, grid, CSS animations, and much more
Store and retrieve data with MongoDB on the Cloud
Deploy your web applications (using both free and paid solutions)
Implement user authentication on your Python and Flask websites
Much, much more!
But most importantly, learn to code from a professional software developer, and like a professional software developer

I won't cover JavaScript in detail, but that's because you just don't need it! With HTML, CSS, and a backend (written with Flask and Python) you can do almost anything your users want. Later on, you can always learn JavaScript for extra functionality. Trying to learn JavaScript and Python together leads to problems, and everything becomes a bit more difficult than it has to be.

If you already know a little bit about programming (with Python or any other language), you're ready to start this course! Also, I've included a complete Python Refresher section to help you get up to speed with Python if you don't know it well already.

Other students are loving the course!

"Jose is a Master of the Art of Programming. This course is truly underrated. He goes straight to the point, yet flesh out all the Gotchas. Introduces current best practices in Web dev. An easy 5 for this course!" - Olayemi Akinsanya

"Great course, learned loads, really great for OOP and for web development. Really fun, can't wait to start my own projects now!" - Joshua Shallow

"A well organized and very useful course! Thank you, Jose!" - Leonid Bushman

Feel free to look through the preview videos of this course to see if it's a good fit for you!

Remember I offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can join me for an entire month, risk-free, and decide whether to keep going or not.

I'll see you on the inside!

Jose Salvatierra

Content

Your Age in Seconds

Get the course e-book!

Introduction

Join the live chat for discussions and Q&A

Installing Python

Integers and Strings

Integers and Strings Quiz

Variables in Python

Creating variables

Solution to coding exercise: creating variables

Methods print(), str(), and int()

The print, str, and int methods

Solution to coding exercise: print, str, and int

The format() method

The .format() cheatsheet

Formatting strings quiz

The format() method

Solution to coding exercise: format()

Getting user input with the input() method

Asking users for input

Solution to coding exercise: user input

Creating our own methods in Python

Creating methods and functions

Solution to coding exercise: creating functions

If statements in Python

If statements quiz

If statements

Solution to coding exercise: if statements

Section 1 assignment video

Python basics

The Age Program Python Code

Price of a Chair

Our Development Environment

Creating virtual environments for Python development

Our Age application in PyCharm

(aside) Tweaking PyCharm

Understanding JSON and XML

Making our first HTTP GET request

Finding our chair price parsing HTML

Parsing HTML data using BeautifulSoup

Why scraping sometimes fails

Using the price as a number

HTTP Quiz

What's a Browser program Python Code

A simple terminal Blog

Our MongoDB e-book

Installing MongoDB

MongoDB FAQ

Introduction to MongoDB

Creating a PyCharm project that uses MongoDB and pymongo

Simplifying lists in Python with list comprehension

Python list comprehension

Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

Creating our first class, the Post

Creating a Database class for database interactions

The last few Post methods

Having default parameter values in Python methods

Understanding dates in Python: the datetime module

Verifying that the Post methods all work

The Blog class and @classmethods

Verifying the Blog methods all work

Starting the menu and user interactions

Finalising the Menu class

Finally, running the application!

Terminal Blog program Python Code

Our first web application

Introduction to REST APIs

How can we make our own API? What is Flask?

Python cls() and argument unpacking

Creating the User model for our application

Starting developing the User model

Creating the login and register

Finding blogs by a specific author

Allowing creation of blogs and posts

Creating the static resources and templates

Our first template in Jinja2

Beginning CSS styling of pages

The user login page

The user registration page

Using Bootstrap for the first time for great styling

How can we display a list of blogs?

Displaying a list of posts

The Jinja2 if statement for structure control

Jinja2 revision

Creating new blogs (front-end)

Finalising the application by allowing to create posts!

The Web Blog program Python Code

[2019] Price alerts for online web-stores

Creating new Python projects in PyCharm 2019

Get the price alert code here!

What are Flask Blueprints?

Creating our new app structure

Getting page content with requests

How to find the price on a website

Getting an element's content with BeautifulSoup

Using RegEx to get specific information from a string

Creating our Item model

Adding type hinting to our application so far

Starting up MongoDB and making sure it's working

Preparing our Item model for saving in MongoDB

Inserting Items into MongoDB

Retrieving Items from MongoDB

Notifying users in a simple way when the price is reached

What is an abstract class in Python?

Making more methods generic

Finishing up the Model superclass

How to force a subclass to have properties of a parent class

Type hinting the current object type in a method return

Creating items through the web interface

Styling our site using Bootstrap 4

Creating the Items blueprint

Creating a page to show all items

Creating alerts through the web interface

A couple problems and solutions with our app... and our way moving forward

[2019] Developing a complete front-end with Bootstrap 4

Introducing stores to our application

Getting rid of items

Testing our app with stores

Dataclasses in Python 3.7

Turning our models into dataclasses

Giving names to alerts in our application

Saving the last item price

Creating stores through the web interface

Editing alert properties

Linking the alert index to the edit page

Editing stores

Deleting alerts

Deleting stores

Registering users

Encrypting passwords in Python with passlib

Logging in

Viewing only your own alerts

What are Python decorators?

Limiting some pages only to logged in users

Adding a navigation bar using Bootstrap

Limiting actions to admins only

Logging out

Signing up with Mailgun

Sending e-mail with Mailgun

Creating the landing page

Simple development-stage deployments to Heroku

Signing up for GitHub

Forking the GitHub repository from the last section

How to install Git on Windows

How to use the Windows Git Shell

How to install Git on Mac

How to install Git on Linux

Cloning the Git repository from GitHub onto your computer

File statuses and stages in Git

How to generate an SSH key for GitHub

Git commands: git commit and git push

Git command: git log to check previous commits

Signing up to Heroku

Installing the Heroku Toolbelt (Command-Line Interface)

Creating a new Heroku app

[New 2019] Changes to Heroku deployments

Getting values from environment variables in Python

Setting the environment variables in Heroku

Setting up Heroku required files in our project so Heroku knows what to run

Committing and pushing the new files to GitHub

Adding servers on Heroku (called 'scaling dynos')

Deploying our app to Heroku

Adding MongoLab to our Heroku app as an add-on

How to create a new MongoLab user

Changing our program's database URI to match MongoLab's

Using the Heroku logs to fix an Internal Server Error

Running our deployed app in Heroku

Another error: using the URI default database

Verifying the app works, and next steps in the course

Deploying your apps manually to a server

DigitalOcean Droplets

Creating a DigitalOcean Droplet

Creating a non-root user

Configuring our new user

Installing Python in Ubuntu

Installing MongoDB in Ubuntu

Getting our application code

Configuring uWSGI and the system service

Configuring nginx

Creating a cron job in Ubuntu

Course conclusion. Thank you!

Bonus lecture: other courses and next steps

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Our review

🌟 **Global Course Rating:** 4.62/5 Based on recent reviews, students have found this course to be exceptionally valuable with a high satisfaction rate. The content is praised for its clarity, practicality, and comprehensive coverage of web development with Flask, Python, HTML, CSS, and MongoDB. The instructor's teaching ability and the course structure are frequently highlighted as key strengths. **Pros:** - 🧠 **High-Quality Content:** Students report that the concepts, information, best practices, and hands-on projects are well-explained, making complex topics accessible. - 🤝 **Responsive Instructors:** The staff is noted for their quick and helpful responses to student inquiries. - 📚 **Multimedia Resources:** Access to videos, ebooks, and resources enables learners to grasp the material effectively, despite some challenges with video pacing. - 🚀 **Foundational Skills:** The course provides a solid foundational understanding of web development and its related technologies. - 🌍 **Real-World Application:** Students appreciate the practical approach of applying learned concepts directly to a project. - 👍 **Positive Impact on Learning:** Many students report that the course has significantly improved their understanding, regardless of their initial programming background. **Cons:** - 🚫 **Pacing Issues:** Some reviewers find that the instructor speaks and types code very fast, necessitating frequent pausing and rewinding to keep up. - 🧩 **Basic Skills Assumption:** A few students felt that there was too much focus on HTML/CSS basics, which they already knew, and expected more advanced Python and Flask content. - ☹️ **Project Structure:** Some frustration arises from the instructor's frequent switching between different files instead of consistently building upon a single ongoing project. - 🛠️ **Overreliance on Starter Code:** There is a concern that the amount of starter code and copy-pasting could hinder learning by doing, as advertised in the course description. - 📆 **MongoDB Updates:** A significant issue noted by several students is that MongoDB errored out, and keeping up with changes in the database proved challenging. **Student Testimonials:** - "The Course was amazing...I am basically from Java and Kotlin background, I used to do lots of tinkering in other programming languages. But this course really hooked me up..." - "It's frustrating that the instructor keeps switching back and forth between our 'ongoing' project and just one off files that he has written to demonstrate a point...However, after finishing the first few sections of the HTML and CSS, it's clear that Jose has created an amazing course." - "So far so good, although I must say I am a little disappointed that half of the course is HTML/CSS...But this course really hooked me up and made me sit in-front of the laptop for hours." - "I highly recommend this course if you are interested in the subject. One can feel it was carefully and thoughtfully prepared. Quality is paramount..." **Conclusion:** Overall, this course is highly recommended for individuals looking to learn web development with Flask and Python, with a strong emphasis on practical application. The positive feedback far outweighs the negative, indicating that the course is an effective learning tool for those who are committed to actively engaging with the material. However, potential students should be aware of the pacing issues and the need to stay current with technology changes, particularly when working with MongoDB.

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