Basic Backend Engineering

What Will You Learn?

• Week 1: Introduction to Backend Engineering
• Overview of backend engineering
• Basic terminology and concepts
• Differences between frontend and backend development
• An introduction to web development frameworks
• Week 2: Databases and Data Modeling
• Introduction to databases
• Relational vs NoSQL databases
• Understanding data modeling
• Introduction to SQL
• Week 3: Server-side Programming
• An introduction to server-side programming
• Basic programming concepts (such as variables, functions, control flow, etc.)
• Working with HTTP requests and responses
• Web server frameworks
• Week 4: API Design and Development
• Understanding APIs and RESTful architecture
• Creating and consuming RESTful APIs
• Documenting APIs
• Testing APIs
• Week 5: Security and Scalability
• Understanding web application security
• Implementing authentication and authorization
• Basic security best practices
• Scalability and load testing
• Week 6: Deployment and Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD)
• Understanding deployment strategies
• Deploying web applications to servers or cloud platforms
• Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) processes
• Troubleshooting and debugging web applications
• Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on exercises, coding challenges, and projects to apply the concepts and techniques learned in class to real-world scenarios.
• Overall, a basic backend engineering course provides learners with the foundational knowledge and skills needed to begin a career as a backend developer, or to better understand the backend systems in their own web or mobile applications.