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Beginner20 weeks
Backend Development
Build the systems that power real applications.
🧑🤝🧑 Cohort-based learning🎓 Certificate included
APIsDatabasesServer Architecture
About this course
Learn server-side programming, APIs, and databases, and how to design and ship the infrastructure that applications run on.
What you'll achieve
Understand server-side programming fundamentals.
Design and build RESTful APIs.
Work with relational databases and write SQL.
Implement authentication and authorization.
Handle errors, logging, and testing.
Understand server architecture and scalability basics.
Work with version control in a team setting.
Ship a deployed backend service.
Curriculum
- 1Server-Side Programming Fundamentals
- 2Working with Databases & SQL
- 3Building REST APIs
- 4Authentication & Authorization
- 5Data Validation & Error Handling
- 6Testing Backend Applications
- 7Working with Third-Party APIs
- 8Server Architecture & Scalability Basics
- 9Version Control & Team Workflows
- 10Deployment & Environment Management
- 11Capstone Project: Build & Deploy an API
- 12Career Readiness
Requirements
- Attend weekly live sessions and participate actively.
- Have a laptop with a stable internet connection.
- Complete weekly assignments and practice exercises.
- Dedicate at least 2–3 hours of self-study each week outside class.
- Install a code editor and Node.js before the first session.
Regular₦15,000/month
Payments via Paystack — coming soon
- Cohort-based learning
- Certificate of completion
- Mentor access
- 2 live classes per week
- Course community
Your Tutor
AO
Ada Okafor
Senior Software Engineer
Ada has spent the last 8 years building backend systems for fintech products and now mentors engineers on writing production-grade code.
Cohort Details
- Level
- Beginner
- Duration
- 20 weeks
- Format
- Cohort-based
- Certificate
- Yes, upon completion