Back End Developer Learning Path: Free Course

About this course

Study Back End Developer Learning Path through this free English video course from freeCodeCamp. The classroom brings together all 17 public recordings from the selected source curriculum, totaling approximately 66h 30m. You can watch the teaching sequence, search the lesson list and keep track of the recordings you have completed. The course focuses on the subject named in its title. Its value comes from following the explanations and making your own small practice attempts, with enough time to inspect the result and explain the decisions involved.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Connect a backend service with its data and clients
• Follow Python and full-stack web-development foundations
• Build database and API vocabulary
• Study authentication, security and testing examples
• Compare infrastructure, caching and server components
• Plan an independent application using the demonstrated technologies

Skills you’ll gain

• Backend development
• APIs
• Databases
• Deployment

Course Overview

Provider-curated complete recorded learning path; preserve its roadmap and every constituent full course, including lessons shared with the other path.

The source lesson list includes “Back End Developer Roadmap”, “OWASP API Security Top 10 Course – Secure Your Web Apps”, “How does the internet work? (Full Course)”. The classroom retains their original titles and positions. Introductions, supplementary explanations and complete-course recordings remain present whenever they are part of the source. A repeated recording is retained at each original position, allowing the course to be checked against the published teaching sequence.

Foundations

Begin with the roadmap and full-stack and Python material. Distinguish the responsibilities of a browser, a server and a database, and keep track of the programming concepts needed before following a framework tutorial.

Data and services

Work through the database and API courses. Identify how an application validates input, stores information and exposes useful operations, then compare the Django, GraphQL and Firebase examples in their own contexts.

Testing and security

Connect the API-security and JavaScript-testing recordings with a small service you understand. Record what a test checks and distinguish input validation, access control and dependency concerns.

Deployment and architecture

Study the containers, Kubernetes, system-design, NGINX, Redis and Internet explanations. Draw a simple system plan and identify the reason for each component before trying to reproduce a larger deployment.

Who is this for?

This course suits learners who want the specific subject described above and who can work at the stated level. It is also useful as a recorded reference when revisiting a concept or comparing a practice attempt with a demonstrated example. Beginners should give the foundational explanations time before moving to more elaborate applications. Experienced learners can use the lesson names to locate a topic, then inspect the surrounding context before applying a technique.

Before you start

This path begins with foundational material. Allow substantial practice time between its long constituent courses. Frameworks and cloud services have their own setup and version requirements; optional paid infrastructure is separate from free viewing.

Put the lessons into practice

Design a fictional small catalogue service with a database and API. Define two operations, one validation rule and a test for each operation. Explain how the service would be reached by a client and which deployment components it needs. Add a short data model, an access-control decision and a monitoring note. Build one manageable part locally, then use the relevant recording to review a step you cannot explain.

Treat this suggested exercise as independent practice provided by WikiFree. Keep a short working note containing your inputs, assumptions, result and one point you still need to check. Revisit the relevant recording when a step is unclear, then attempt a small variation without following the demonstration line by line. A result you can explain and reproduce is a more useful study outcome than simply recognizing a familiar term. The exercise is not submitted to an instructor for grading.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching these public recordings and using WikiFree completion tracking does not award a certificate, academic credit, an examination voucher or instructor assessment. The video curriculum is the material included here. Separate platform assignments, credentials and paid services are not part of video viewing. Use the practice output to review which concepts you can explain, which steps you can repeat independently and which questions need another look at the teaching.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: freeCodeCamp. Videos play from the freeCodeCamp channel on YouTube.