Become a fullstack mobile developer by learning how to use and build web APIs, as well as to design, build, and deploy web API services with Python and Flask, a minimalist web application framework.

We will learn about networking in iOS, explore how to make network requests and build a web API.

• Networking - Getting data from the internet.
• JSON Parsing/Modeling.
• Consuming data from an API.
• Build a simple backend for your iOS app with Python & Flask.

Students should be able to:

• Construct a simple backend server in Python and Flask using RESTful architecture.
• Effectively make use of industry-standard software packages and libraries to make HTTP requests and serialize/deserialize JSON as needed.
• Assess the quality of their code using the “red, green, refactor” method for Test-Driven-Development (TDD).
• Design and implement a RESTful backend architecture.

1. Product Hunt API
2. Travel App - Backend and Frontend
3. Custom Project - Backend - Frontend

• Week 1

  • Constructing Requests with URLs, URLRequests And URLSessions
  • Modeling data & Error Handling

• Week 2

  • Intro to concurrency- GCD
  • Project - Product Hunt API

• Week 3

  • Project - Travel App
  • Intro to Backend Systems - Creating a Flask API
  • Databases
  • Resources and Routes

• Week 4

  • Test-Driven-Development
  • Authentication & Security

• Week 5

  • Project - Custom Project
  • Deployment

• Week 6

  • Project - Custom Project

To pass the course, students will have:

1. Completed all challenges.