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Back end web development

- Understanding the role of back-end development in web applications.
- Differentiating between front-end and back-end development.
- Define what back-end development is and why it's important.
- Identify the components of a web application.
- Preparing the necessary tools and environments for back-end development.
- Installing Node.js, Python, or your chosen back-end language runtime.
- Using package managers (npm, pip, Composer, etc.)
- Version control with Git and GitHub
- Introduction to JavaScript (Node.js) or another back-end language (Python, Ruby, etc.)
- Variables, data types, and operators
- Functions and scope
- Control structures loops and conditionals
- Error handling and debugging
- SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis)
- ORMs (Object-Relational Mappers) and ODMs (Object-Document Mappers)