Week 5: Business Logic Layer - Controllers

Content:

• MVC design pattern and separation of concerns.
• Definition and role of controllers.
• Workflow of request and response in web applications.
• CRUD operations.
• Routes and controllers.

Things to Know:

1. Flask basics:
   • Instantiating a Flask app.
   • Basic routing.
   • Python decorators.
   • Rendering templates using Jinja.
   • Redirection and error handling.
2. Flask-SQLAlchemy:
   • Instantiating a database object.
   • Database configuration.
   • Creating models and establishing relationships.

Week 6: APIs and REST

Content:

• Overview of APIs.
• Key principles of API design.
• REST architecture and its constraints.
• RESTful APIs.
• Introduction to OpenAPI and specifications.
• The relation between APIs and CRUD operations.

Things to Know:

1. Flask-Restful:
   • Resource routing and endpoint mapping.
   • Argument parsing with reqparse.
   • Output formatting using marshal_with and output fields.
2. API documentation tools: Swagger UI, Insomnia.
3. Testing APIs: Using cURL and Postman.

Week 7: Backend

Content:

• Memory hierarchy and storage mechanisms.
• Computer organization and storage solutions.
• Data and database search methods.
• Web application validations and security measures.

Things to Know:

1. Algorithmic complexities.
2. Double data rate (DDR) , DRAM, Clock speed, minimum encoding
3. Examples and problems on algorithmic complexities.
4. Redundancy and Replication

Week 8: Application Frontend

Content:

• Introduction to frontend development.
• AJAX and asynchronous data updates.
• WebAssembly (WASM).
• Security implications in frontend development.

Things to Know:

1. DOM concepts and manipulations.
2. Client-side operations and computation.
3. Basic JavaScript knowledge.
4. Differnce between frontend and backend validation