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Ready to start your journey into back-end programming? Take Introduction to Back-End Programming—explore the building blocks of back-end web architecture and the components of writing the server-side logic for web applications.
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What is the Back-End?
Explore the building blocks of back-end web architecture and the components of writing the server-side logic for web applications.
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