Python Backend Developer

A path oriented toward API/backend work, including the parts (databases, deployment) that tutorials often skip.

1. 1

   Python fundamentals

   The language itself before frameworks.

   • • Syntax, data structures (lists, dicts, sets), functions
   • • Virtual environments (venv) and pip
   • • Type hints — used heavily by FastAPI

   Python guide →
2. 2

   Version control

   Standard across every team you'll work with.

   • • Git basics: commits, branches, merging
   • • Working with GitHub: pull requests, code review basics

   Git guide →
3. 3

   Web fundamentals

   What actually happens over HTTP, independent of any framework.

   • • HTTP methods, status codes, and headers
   • • REST API design basics
   • • JSON as a data format
4. 4

   FastAPI

   Building and documenting an actual API.

   • • Path/query/body parameters and Pydantic models
   • • Dependency injection for shared logic (auth, DB sessions)
   • • Automatic OpenAPI documentation

   FastAPI guide →
5. 5

   Data & deployment

   The parts of a real service that go beyond the framework itself.

   • • SQL fundamentals and an ORM (SQLAlchemy)
   • • Database migrations (Alembic)
   • • Deploying behind Uvicorn/Gunicorn, environment variables, and basic monitoring