Build a Static Site Generator in Python
Build the kind of tool that turns Markdown into a website, then understand static site generators from the inside.
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What you'll learn in this Python course
Ever wondered how SEO and performance-optimized static site generators like Hugo work? In this guided project you'll build your own from scratch using Python. You'll put a lot of your learnings from Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming to use in a tangible web project. This project isn't for the faint of heart, but it's well worth the effort. You'll come away with a deeper understanding of static content management.
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Honestly a great course that really pushed me out of my comfort zone. I failed a lot, but thats where the learning happens right?
Jesse S
United States
I mean with the help of the AI I could write it but it gets a bit convoluted. The beginning of the course is fantastic but the later it gets the less it recuperates or helps you with the tasks and it's also not easy to find the syntaxes you need because the library grows in a not really that structured way. There is more and more IT language used to give you the tasks without proper explanation making me sometimes even turn to boot to just understand what the task even wants me to do.
Alex Canziani
Switzerland
This is a challenging project, so the scale and difficulty are understandable. But there are some lessons that either tackle too much at once, or have some sneaky unclear descriptions. It would also be very helpful to have some form of architecture layout to refer to. While building each function, it's difficult to understand how it will fit into the whole. There is a graph that lays out the file structure, but nothing equivalent to a design document that lays out the logic of the function flow.
Nick Olson
United States
God if it was hard, I slowed down my learning I think for 2 months even more cause this is though but to be honest I would advise just do this when you've got a few days free in a row instead of dividing it cause if not it gets even more complicated than it is :)
Mauro Baldanzi
United Kingdom
Amazing course - I enjoyed it quite a lot and learned many things. I did find the unit testing a bit too tedious - not having concrete usecases to test, kind of made me overthink... But maybe this is a good thing! I even developed with Testing first (TDD) for a while :D
Vlad Mocanu
Brasov, Romania
Very cool course. Extremely challenging, but worth it to stick it out and just puzzle through things. Take it slow. Boots is a great help getting you over any hurdles :)
Ken Hilliard
New Zealand
Cool project, but a lot gray area and external self studying for some parts
Chris
United States
this one was really challenging but i learned a lot! thanks!
Cecilia Barranco
Mexico
Lobed this course!
Josh Lesher
Raleigh, United States
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