Advanced Python: Practical Database Examples

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Advanced Python: Practical Database Examples. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

Looking for a hands-on opportunity to take your Python skills to the next level? In this course, instructor Kathryn Hodge takes you through a series of practical database examples to help level up your Python applications.

Learn how to create an API that serves data from a database using FastAPI, Flask, MySQL, Postman, SQLAlchemy, endpoints, and more. Get proven tips on how to develop analysis applications with pandas, the high-performance Python library featuring robust and integrated built-in data structures. Test out your new coding skills as you go in the exercise challenges at the end of each section. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to start building full-stack task list applications with Flask, a microframework designed uniquely for Python that lets you integrate data from a database directly to an app.

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

To resolve this issue:

Add changes to git using this command: git add .
Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"

Instructor

Kathryn Hodge

Software Engineer

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