Scalable Web Applications with Python, Flask, and SQLAlchemy

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: The Basics

Lecture 1: Why Web Development is So Complicated

Lecture 2: why flask and prerequisites

Lecture 3: virtual environments

Lecture 4: installing Pycharm on mac

Lecture 5: working with pycharm

Lecture 6: python classes and basic flask application

Lecture 7: http get requests

Lecture 8: http post requests

Chapter 2: routing in flask

Lecture 1: understanding query strings

Lecture 2: numbers and floats

Lecture 3: rendering html templates

Chapter 3: jinja2 templating

Lecture 1: jinja part 1

Lecture 2: jinja part 2

Lecture 3: the url_for method

Lecture 4: jinja part 4 – filters

Lecture 5: jinja part 5 – macros

Chapter 4: working with databases

Lecture 1: installing PostgreSQL on mac

Lecture 2: installing PostgreSQL on windows

Lecture 3: setting up the PostgreSQL database

Lecture 4: creating tables

Chapter 5: performing CRUD operations

Lecture 1: inserting records

Lecture 2: establishing relationships

Lecture 3: querying data part 1

Lecture 4: querying data part 2

Lecture 5: updating and deleting records

Chapter 6: working with git and github

Lecture 1: installing git on windows

Lecture 2: installing git on mac

Lecture 3: git commands part 1

Lecture 4: git commands part 2

Chapter 7: understanding contexts in flask

Lecture 1: flask context variables part 1

Lecture 2: flask context variables part 2

Chapter 8: scalable architecture

Lecture 1: scaling applications 1

Lecture 2: scaling applications 2

Lecture 3: scaling applications 3

Lecture 4: scaling applications 4

Chapter 9: database models

Lecture 1: models part 1

Lecture 2: models part 2 – displaying data in a browser

Lecture 3: models part 3 – displaying data in a browser

Chapter 10: Integrating twitter Bootstrap with flask

Lecture 1: improve design using flask-bootstrap

Chapter 11: working with forms

Lecture 1: a simple form

Lecture 2: basic user registration form and CSRF

Lecture 3: flask login and password hashing using bcrypt

Lecture 4: creating users in the database

Lecture 5: adding data validation to the registration process

Lecture 6: capturing user credentials using forms part 1

Lecture 7: capturing user credentials using forms part 2

Lecture 8: writing custom validations

Lecture 9: login manager and usermixin classes

Lecture 10: letting users login

Lecture 11: display login status

Lecture 12: logging users out

Lecture 13: current user

Chapter 12: performing CRUD operations using forms

Lecture 1: delete database records

Lecture 2: update database records using forms

Lecture 3: inserting database records using forms

Chapter 13: error handling in flask

Lecture 1: 404, page not found

Chapter 14: deploying flask applications to heroku

Lecture 1: preparing the app for deployment

Lecture 2: uploading the app to github

Lecture 3: defining the environment variables and deploying the app to heroku

Lecture 4: restoring PostgreSQL database into heroku using Amazon S3

Lecture 5: conclusion