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Building an AI Cooking Helper with Django

Software Engineering

4 courses

Design and build a smart, AI-powered cooking API with Django by modeling a scalable database, creating rich retrieval and search endpoints, generating structured recipes with AI, and adding features like reviews, text-to-speech, and data export for a polished backend experience.

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Python

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Set up the core Django project and a dedicated recipes app, then model the domain your API will rely on (recipes, ingredients, and ratings). You’ll configure settings (SQLite, CORS, static files), register models in the admin, and add a couple of CLI scripts to seed data and safely wipe/reset tables for local development.

Course 2

Building the API: Retrieval, Search, and Filter with Django

4 lessons

23 practices

Implement the first set of read-focused API endpoints for your recipe database. You’ll add consistent JSON serialization, pagination, and robust validation/error handling, then expand into recipe discovery features like filtering by ingredients, returning steps as an array, and selecting random or top-rated recipes.

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Course 3

AI Recipe Generation & Extraction with Django

5 lessons

25 practices

Add an LLM layer to generate and extract structured recipes. You’ll create a lightweight prompt templating system, integrate OpenAI calls behind a small wrapper, and expose an endpoint that generates recipes from ingredients. You’ll also build a CLI workflow to extract a clean recipe from messy HTML and store it into your Django database.

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Course 4

Final Additions to our Smart Cooking API with Django

3 lessons

18 practices

Round out the backend with interactive features and utilities: generate Text-to-Speech audio for recipe playback, let users submit ratings, list available ingredients, and export stored recipes to CSV for portability. You’ll focus on practical API finishing touches and simple scripts that improve usability and maintainability.

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Francisco Aguilar Meléndez

Data Scientist

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I love that it's personalized. When I'm stuck, I don't have to hope my Google searches come out successful. The AI mentor Cosmo knows exactly what I need.

Faith Yim

Software Engineer

+14

It's an amazing product and exceeded my expectations, helping me prepare for my job interviews. Hands-on learning requires you to actually know what you are doing.

Alex Bush

Full Stack Engineer

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Tech consultant

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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