Python — From Zero to Deployed API
Learn Python from the ground up and build a fully deployed REST API with FastAPI and PostgreSQL in 7 weeks.
This course takes you from writing your first Python script to deploying a production-ready REST API on the internet — with a real PostgreSQL database, JWT authentication, and live Swagger documentation.You will spend the first two weeks mastering Python's core language: data structures, functions, file handling, and error handling. Week 3 deepens your thinking with object-oriented programming — classes, inheritance, and encapsulation — which directly prepares you for the database and framework weeks ahead.Week 4 covers PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy: you will write raw SQL, then learn to work at the ORM level, and version-control your schema with Alembic migrations. Weeks 5 and 6 are where everything comes together — you build a full Task Management API in FastAPI with user authentication, data validation via Pydantic, and an automated test suite.The final week is deployment: your API goes live on Render backed by a Neon cloud PostgreSQL database, with a public Swagger URL you can put in your portfolio the same day.Every module ends with a project that uses only what has been taught so far — no black-box magic, no copy-paste tutorials. By the end, you will have built five progressively complex projects and deployed one of them to the internet.
Curriculum
Core language — syntax, data structures, functions, file handling
What you will learn
- Environment setup, virtual environments & pip
- Variables, data types, operators & type casting
- Control flow — if/elif/else, for & while loops
- Functions, *args/**kwargs & scope
- Lists, tuples, sets & dictionaries
- File handling — read, write, append
- Error handling — try/except/finally
- List & dict comprehensions, lambda, map/filter
- JSON, collections & pathlib modules
What you'll be able to do
- Write clean Python scripts confidently
Handle files, errors, and data structures
- Build reusable functions with proper arguments
Mini-Project -- CLI Grade Calculator
Reads student names and scores from a CSV, computes per-student averages and pass/fail status, and writes a formatted report to a text file. Uses functions, dicts, file I/O, and error handling.
Classes, inheritance, encapsulation & design patterns
What you will learn
- Classes, objects, __init__ & instance attributes
- Instance, class & static methods
- @property — getters, setters & validation
- Inheritance, super() & method overriding
- Abstract classes with the abc module
- Magic/dunder methods — __str__, __eq__, __lt__
- Revision day — refactor, peer review & Q&A
What you'll be able to do
- Model real problems as classes
- Use inheritance to avoid duplicated code
- Enforce data rules with @property and validation
Mini-Project — OOP Inventory System
Product base class with PhysicalProduct and DigitalProduct subclasses, and an Inventory manager with search, stock alerts, and @property price validation.
Raw SQL, SQLAlchemy ORM, Alembic migrations
What you will learn
- PostgreSQL setup, psql CLI & pgAdmin
- SQL — SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, constraints
- JOINs, GROUP BY, aggregates & indexes
- psycopg2 — parameterised queries from Python
- SQLAlchemy ORM — models, sessions, relationships
- Alembic — schema migrations & version control
- Project build & revision day
What you'll be able to do
- Design and query a relational database
- Connect Python to PostgreSQL safely
- Version-control your schema with migrations
Mini-Project — Library Management System
Members, Books, and Loans tables in SQLAlchemy with an Alembic migration. Python CLI for borrowing, returning, and listing overdue loans, with a seed script for test data.
Routing, Pydantic, JWT auth, testing & capstone build
What you will learn
- FastAPI, async/await, Uvicorn & auto Swagger docs
- Pydantic schemas — request/response validation
- Project structure, APIRouter & get_db dependency
- Full CRUD — proper HTTP verbs & status codes
- Custom error handling & logging middleware
- JWT auth — bcrypt, token creation & protected routes
- User-scoped data — ownership & 403 enforcement
- CORS, background tasks & pytest with TestClient
- Capstone build — Task Management API
- Capstone review, Swagger polish & Q&A
What you'll be able to do
- Build a fully documented REST API
- Implement secure JWT authentication
- Write automated tests with pytest
Capstone — Task Management API
Full REST API with JWT-based registration and login, user-scoped task CRUD, priority and status filtering, a pytest test suite, and Swagger documentation.
Cloud PostgreSQL, Render hosting & live demo
What you will learn
- Environment variables, .env files & 12-factor config
- Neon serverless PostgreSQL — live database setup
- Deploy to Render — build config, env vars & logs
- Production hardening — CORS, health endpoint
- Live demo, Swagger docs review & portfolio tips
What you'll be able to do
- Deploy a real app to the internet
- Manage secrets and environment config
- Present a live portfolio project