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Week 5 of 8

Production-Quality Applications

Turn your prototype into a real application people can use.

What You'll Learn

  • User accounts
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • User permissions
  • CRUD operations
  • Database design
  • Data validation
  • Error handling
  • Loading states
  • Form validation
  • Security fundamentals
  • Protecting API keys
  • Environment variables
  • Basic application security

Production Mindset

You'll learn the difference between:

It works on my computer.

and

People can actually use this.

Project

Students improve their application by adding:

  • User accounts
  • Database
  • Persistent data
  • Authentication
  • Proper error handling
  • Security protections

By the End of Week 5

You will understand how to transform an AI-generated prototype into a more reliable, secure and usable application.

Deliverable: Multi-user application