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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