Do you want to quickly build web applications that are highly scalable and secure by design? Are you keen on using your existing Python skills for web development instead of learning a completely new language?

This carefully structured course combines text, video and assessment content. It focuses on Python, starting out with core coverage of the Django framework. You'll learn how to build web applications from the ground up, in a responsible and scalable way. The latter sections then detail how you can take your web application and run it through a suite of comprehensive tests that prepare it for real-world security threats and exploits.

By taking this course you will not just learn about web development with Python. You'll understand how to build web applications properly, in a manner that lets you test and improve them responsibly to a professional standard.

Why should I choose this course?

We've spent the last decade working to help developers stay relevant. The structure of this course is a result of deep and intensive research into what real-world developers need to know in order to be job-ready. We don't spend too long on theory, and focus on practical results so that you can see for yourself how things work in action.

What details do you cover?

This course makes use of Django, which is one of the world's leading web development frameworks. As it sits within the Python ecosystem, it makes your application development experience extremely easy to approach without compromising on efficiency.

We start off by learning about class-based views, so that you can start building pages that respond to specific requests and URL structures. We’ll then dive into creating custom middleware, which will help us reuse code, resulting in a more complete introductory web application.

Have you ever wanted to build a complete REST API? Our next step is to do just that. Starting out with basic read-only functionality, we'll also add key-based authentication so that we can properly implement a CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) feature set.

The latter part of the course will start with an overview of the web application penetration testing methodology. We also dive into the suite of tools used by real-world professionals so that you can start compiling your very own toolkit.

We don't just cover the background to penetration testing. We'll show you how to intercept HTTP techniques and interact  directly with web applications using Python and the requests library. We'll also show you several web crawling techniques, on top of highly sought after SQL injection methods. You'll also lean how to write and develop your own custom tooling and reference scripts to save you time, just like the professionals.

By the time you reach the end, you'll have gone through the entire process of building and validating web applications with Django and Python. We've complied this into one easy reference that reflects the working habits of actual penetration testers to deliver the most accurate learning experience as possible.