Software Engineering Training Program

This training program teaches you to build production-ready web APIs with Python using FastAPI. It is structured as three progressive tiers followed by a final project exam.

Program Structure

Foundations

Web fundamentals, OS concepts, and asynchronous programming — the building blocks every FastAPI engineer must understand:

• File descriptors, sockets, and the OS networking model

• HTTP and web concepts

• Python asyncio: event loops, coroutines, and cooperative concurrency

• Threading, the GIL, multiprocessing, and process forking

• CPython internals

Learn: Foundations

Core Techniques

FastAPI, data modeling, databases, and CRUD patterns — the practical skills for building API applications:

• FastAPI introduction: routes, request handling, OpenAPI docs

• Path parameters, query parameters, request bodies

• Pydantic models for data validation

• PostgreSQL with SQLAlchemy (sync and async)

• Alembic database migrations

• Dependency injection with Depends()

• CRUD operations and application structure

• ASGI internals

Learn: Core Techniques

Advanced

Authentication, testing, and architectural patterns for production-quality applications:

• JWT fundamentals: HS256, RS256, token validation

• OAuth2 authorization framework and Google authentication

• FastAPI authentication patterns (memory DB, OAuth2 password flow)

• Greenlets and SQLAlchemy async bridging

• Unit testing with pytest, TestClient, and async mocks

Learn: Advanced

Final Project Exam

An end-to-end project that integrates all three tiers — building a complete authenticated CRUD API with database persistence.

How to Use This Program

1. Work through each tier in order — Foundations → Core Techniques → Advanced.

2. Read the Knowledge pages in learn/software-engineering/ to understand concepts.

3. Complete the Practice assignments in each tier.

4. Sit the Final Project Exam after completing all three tiers.