Lane Wagner

Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, both on Boot.dev, free YouTube courses and on the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management where he found the lack of new backend devs in the job market concerning. He started Boot.dev a couple of years later to help students self-learn back-end development in the most engaging way possible.

Lane Wagner's Courses

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Learn Object Oriented Programming

Ch 1. Classes Ch 2. Encapsulation Ch 3. Abstraction Ch 4. Inheritance Ch 5. Polymorphism

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Learn Functional Programming

Ch 1. What is Functional Programming? Ch 2. First Class Functions Ch 3. Pure Functions Ch 4. Recursion Ch 5. Function Transformations Ch 6. Closures Ch 7. Currying Ch 8. Decorators Ch 9. Sum Types

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Learn Web Servers

Ch 1. Servers Ch 2. Routing Ch 3. Architecture Ch 4. JSON Ch 5. Storage Ch 6. Authentication Ch 7. Authorization Ch 8. Webhooks Ch 9. Documentation

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Learn Docker

Ch 1. Install Ch 2. Command Line Ch 3. Storage Ch 4. Networks Ch 5. Dockerfiles Ch 6. Publish

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Learn Algorithms

Ch 1. Introduction Ch 2. Math Ch 3. Polynomial Time Ch 4. Sorting Algorithms Ch 5. Exponential Time Ch 6. P vs NP

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Learn Kubernetes

Ch 1. Install Ch 2. Pods Ch 3. Deployments Ch 4. ConfigMaps Ch 5. Services Ch 6. Ingress Ch 7. Storage Ch 8. Namespaces Ch 9. Scaling Ch 10. Nodes

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Learn Go

Ch 1. Introduction Ch 2. Variables Ch 3. Functions Ch 4. Structs Ch 5. Interfaces Ch 6. Errors Ch 7. Loops Ch 8. Slices Ch 9. Maps Ch 10. Advanced Functions Ch 11. Pointers Ch 12. Local Development Ch 13. Channels Ch 14. Mutexes Ch 15. Generics Ch 16. Quiz

Guided Project

Build a Maze Solver

Build a visual maze solver using Python and Tkinter. You'll be writing code that draws a randomized maze and then systematically solves it. You will use your knowledge of algorithms to automate this fun game! This is a fantastic way to build a real project and solidify your algorithmic skills.

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Learn Cryptography

Ch 1. Symmetric Encryption Ch 2. Encoding Ch 3. Brute Force Ch 4. Caesar Cipher Ch 5. XOR Ch 6. Stream Ciphers Ch 7. Block Ciphers Ch 8. DES Ch 9. AES Ch 10. Asymmetric Encryption Ch 11. RSA Ch 12. Hash Functions Ch 13. Digital Signatures Ch 14. KDFs

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Learn Shells and Terminals

Ch 1. Terminals and Shells Ch 2. Filesystems Ch 3. Permissions Ch 4. Programs Ch 5. Package Managers

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Learn JavaScript

Ch 1. Introduction Ch 2. Variables Ch 3. Comparisons Ch 4. Functions Ch 5. Arrays Ch 6. Loops Ch 7. Objects Ch 8. Errors Ch 9. Runtimes

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Learn Python

Ch 1. Introduction Ch 2. Variables Ch 3. Functions Ch 4. Scope Ch 5. Testing and Debugging Ch 6. Computing Ch 7. Comparisons Ch 8. Loops Ch 9. Lists Ch 10. Dictionaries Ch 11. Sets Ch 12. Errors Ch 13. Challenges Ch 14. Quiz

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Learn Data Structures

Ch 1. Introduction Ch 2. Stacks Ch 3. Queues Ch 4. Trees Ch 5. Hashmaps Ch 6. Tries Ch 7. Graphs Ch 8. BFS and DFS

Guided Project

Build a Static Site Generator

Ch 1. Static Sites Ch 2. Nodes Ch 3. Inline Ch 4. Blocks Ch 5. Website

Guided Project

Build a Pokedex

Build a REPL pokedex on the command line in Go. Learn how to use JSON, make network requests, implement caching, and more!

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Learn How to Find a Programming Job

Ch 1. Strategy Ch 2. Projects Ch 3. GitHub Profile Ch 4. LinkedIn Profile Ch 5. Resume Ch 6. Applying Ch 7. Networking Ch 8. Interviewing Ch 9. Relocation

Guided Project

Build a Bookbot

You'll build a real command-line application in Python that does static analysis on text files, entire Novels, in fact. You'll be guided through the set up of a professional-grade development environment using VS Code, Git, and Github. You'll learn the basics of development on the command line, and if you're on Windows, we'll even show you how to develop in Linux using WSL.

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Learn Pub/Sub Architecture

Ch 1. Pub/Sub Architecture Ch 2. Message Brokers Ch 3. Publishers & Queues Ch 4. Subscribers & Routing Ch 5. Delivery Ch 6. Serialization Ch 7. Scalability

Portfolio Project

Capstone Project

Build your best personal project yet, completely from scratch, then submit it to the community for feedback. You're allowed to use any languages and frameworks you want, but you must build it yourself. The purpose of this project is two-fold: a chance to put your skills into practice and to add another project to your portfolio. Well-built personal projects will help you land interviews and jobs, so make sure to put in the effort!

Portfolio Project

Personal Project 2

Build a personal project on your own, completely from scratch, then submit it to the community for feedback. You're allowed to use any languages and frameworks you want, but you must build it yourself. The purpose of this project is two-fold: a chance to put your skills into practice and to add another project to your portfolio. Well-built personal projects will help you land interviews and jobs, so make sure to put in the effort!

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Learn Advanced Algorithms

Ch 1. Dijkstra's Ch 2. Bellman Ford Ch 3. Heaps Ch 4. A* Search Ch 5. Dynamic Programming Ch 6. Edit Distance Ch 7. Linear Programming

Guided Project

Build a Blog Aggregator

Build a blog aggregator service in Go. In this project you'll practice building a RESTful API in Go, and you'll use production-ready database tools like PostgreSQL, SQLc, Goose, and pgAdmin. This won't just be another CRUD app, but a service that has a long-running service worker that reaches out over the internet to fetch data from remote locations.

Guided Project

Build a Web Crawler

Build a web crawler in Node.js that reports on the internal linking profile of any website. This web crawler is a tool any SEO expert would be lucky to have. If you're interested in getting a job writing JavaScript, this project will teach you how a Node.js command-line application is built.

Portfolio Project

Personal Project 1

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Learn SQL

Ch 1. Introduction Ch 2. Tables Ch 3. Constraints Ch 4. CRUD Ch 5. Basic Queries Ch 6. Structuring Ch 7. Aggregations Ch 8. Subqueries Ch 9. Normalization Ch 10. Joins Ch 11. Performance

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Learn HTTP

Ch 1. Why HTTP? Ch 2. DNS Ch 3. URIs Ch 4. Async Ch 5. Errors Ch 6. Headers Ch 7. JSON Ch 8. Methods Ch 9. Paths Ch 10. HTTPS

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Learn CI/CD

Ch 1. Continuous Integration Ch 2. Tests Ch 3. Formatting Ch 4. Linting Ch 5. Security Ch 6. Build Ch 7. Deploy Ch 8. Database