Network Programming and Security

Learning PathSkills: CRUD Operations, REST APIs, HTTPS, Socket Programming, Network Security, Web Services

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In this learning path, you’ll learn network programming and security in Python. Starting with CRUD operations and REST API interactions, you’ll then explore how HTTPS works under the hood. Finally, you’ll build networked applications with socket programming.

Network Programming and Security

Learning Path ⋅ 4 Resources

Web APIs and Data

Learn the foundations of web data exchange. You’ll understand CRUD operations and how to interact with REST APIs to read and write data from web services.

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Tutorial

What Are CRUD Operations?

CRUD operations are the cornerstone of application functionality. Whether you access a database or interact with a REST API, you usually want to create, retrieve, update, and delete data. In this tutorial, you'll explore how CRUD operations work in practice.

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Interactive Quiz

What Are CRUD Operations?

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Course

Interacting With REST APIs and Python

Learn how to use Python to communicate with REST APIs. You'll learn about REST architecture and how to use the requests library to get data from a REST API. You'll also explore different Python tools you can use to build REST APIs.

Network Security and Communication

Explore how secure communication works over networks. You’ll learn about HTTPS and cryptography, then build networked applications using Python’s socket module.

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Exploring HTTPS and Cryptography in Python

In this course, you'll gain a working knowledge of the various factors that combine to keep communications over the Internet safe. You'll see concrete examples of how to keep information secure and use cryptography to build your own Python HTTPS application.

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Programming Sockets in Python

In this in-depth video course, you'll learn how to build a socket server and client with Python. By the end, you'll understand how to use the main functions and methods in Python's socket module to write your own networked client-server applications.

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Interactive Quiz

Socket Programming in Python

Congratulations on completing this learning path! You’ve learned to work with REST APIs, HTTPS, and socket programming in Python.

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