Meta Back-End developer

Description

This professional program provides a comprehensive foundation in back-end development, equipping participants with essential technical skills to build robust, scalable, and secure web applications. The curriculum is designed to cover both fundamental concepts and advanced back-end technologies, preparing students for a successful career as back-end or full-stack developers. The program begins with an introduction to version control, where students learn to use Git and GitHub to manage and track changes in code collaboratively. It progresses to an introduction to back-end development, where students gain a solid understanding of back-end principles, architecture, and workflows. Programming in Python is a core part of the curriculum, allowing students to write clean, efficient, and reusable code. Students then move on to explore databases, focusing on the principles of database design, management, and query execution. The introduction to databases for back-end development covers SQL, relational database concepts, and the use of database management systems to support back-end applications. This foundation enables students to build data-driven applications with secure, structured, and accessible data storage solutions. With a strong understanding of programming and databases, students then study APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), learning to design, develop, and integrate APIs for seamless communication between applications. The curriculum introduces the Django web framework, allowing students to build full-stack web applications with back-end logic, security, and user authentication. Advanced concepts such as views, templates, and RESTful APIs are also covered. The Full Stack module bridges the gap between front-end and back-end development, allowing students to gain a holistic understanding of the full development stack. Students work on the Back-End Developer Capstone, a comprehensive project where they apply all the skills learned to design, develop, and deploy a fully functional web application. This hands-on experience prepares them for the demands of a real-world development environment, giving them the confidence to succeed in back-end or full-stack development roles.