1Leg 1Specialization
No prerequisite
Python beyond scripts
The one language the path is written in, taken from a script to a package.
Weeks 1–760 hours$129Tomás Oliveira, verified instructor
Drafted by the tutor
Ship a backend service
One language, one database, and the parts that page you at 3am.
5 courses · 171 hours
Intermediate to Advanced
Taught by Tomás Oliveira and Kofi Mensah
The five courses
2Leg 2
CourseAfter1 Python beyond scripts
HTTP, and what a framework hides
A service answers HTTP first, and here you send every request by hand.
Weeks 7–1030 hours$79Kofi Mensah, verified instructor
3Leg 3
CourseNo prerequisite
Relational data modeling
The tables a service keeps its state in. It needs no Python, so it can start any week.
Weeks 11–1435 hours$99Tomás Oliveira, verified instructor
4Leg 4
CourseAfter1 Python beyond scripts
Python testing with pytest
Tests for code that talks to a database, which is most of the code in a service.
Weeks 14–1616 hours$59Tomás Oliveira, verified instructor
5Leg 5
CourseAfter3 Relational data modeling
Postgres performance
Last: the slow queries that page you at 3am, read from their query plans.
Weeks 16–1930 hours$99Tomás Oliveira, verified instructor
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Your week
9 hours a week, until March 4, 2027. Sessions start at 7pm on weekdays and at 9am on weekends.
Mon2 h
7pm8pmTue1 h
7pmWed1 h
7pmThu1 h
7pmFriOff
Sat3 h
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Before you start
What to bring
Scripts in any language, and a terminal. The first course starts from a script and builds up.
When a week goes badly
Nothing expires. Lower the hours and the date moves, and the courses you own stay yours.
What the certificate asks
All five courses and their projects. A course you know counts once its project is reviewed.
One certificate for the whole path
It lists the five courses, their hours and their reviewed projects, and an employer can check it at its own address.
- Median salary
- $118,000
- First backend role, reported by 960 graduates twelve months out.
- Open roles
- 12,600
- Named these five skills in their posting, on the boards we track.
- Hired within a year
- 64%
- Of those who finished all five courses and their projects.
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Questions
What people ask before they start a path
A person answers anything this list does not. Ask us.
No. The order is the tutor's advice: every course opens on its own, and each card says which courses it builds on. Take them in any order you like and the finish date is worked out the same way.
Yes. Any course in the catalog opens on its own and sits on your dashboard beside the path. The finish date counts only the five on it.
From lesson one at 9 hours a week, it runs 19 weeks, or 5 months of Waypoint Plus at $145. Bought one by one, the five courses cost $465 and stay yours. Below 3 hours a week, buying them is cheaper.
The courses you bought stay yours. The ones you took on Plus close until you start it again, and your progress waits where you left it.
Its teacher can update its lessons, and you keep your place in the ones you finished. If a course leaves the catalog, the tutor puts the closest one in its place and the path keeps its order.
It matches your goal to the courses in the catalog, then orders them by what each builds on. The instructors who teach them check that order, and the note on every card, before a learner sees it.
Pick the hours. Keep the date.
Lesson one of all five courses is free, with the tutor beside it. Plus opens everything else for $29 a month and stops when you do.
No card for lesson one. Plus cancels in one click.
