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JACK CHAN
陳羲文（超揚)

PhD(c), MBA, B.Eng

👨🏻‍💻 IT Professional / 🖋 Author / 📷 Designer / 👨🏻‍💼 Educator
Vice President at BofA, Merrill Lynch
Founder of Jack Visuals
CEO of LBSM Music Group

Based in 🇭🇰 Hong Kong / 🇨🇳 Shenzhen

Hi, it’s Jack here. By day, I’m an IT professional in an investment bank. By night, I work as an author, designer and educator. I am the author of the book 📙 Python API Development Fundamentals. I have multiple side projects going on that you may find interesting. I love learning and sharing. I explore how to get the most out of life.

If you want to send me a personal message, you can find me on Instagram & Facebook.
For collaborations, business inquiries & interviews, you can reach me at ✉️ [email protected]

😎 More about Jack

👨🏻‍💻 As a finance IT Professional

Jack is a business analyst and development manager with 10+ years of global investment banking experience, with strong technical IT background, broad-based experience and skill set in web and application design and development, business analysis, project management in financial industry.

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🎵 As the CEO of a Musical Instruments and Education Centre

Other than his professional career in global investment bank, Jack also runs the LBSM company based in Hong Kong. He directs overall operations of a piano store selling used pianos imported from Japan or reconditioned locally along with providing music courses to students. Perform various office duties such as organising and hosting regular meetings, developing strategies, marketing, and providing technical expertise that will drive company towards the achievement of corporate goals and objectives.

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📸 As a Photographer and Designer

Because of his interest in arts and photography, Jack has founded Jack Visuals in 2014. He has done various photography projects, capturing great moments for couples, shooting professional corporate headshots, creating product pictures with commercial value. His clients include international brand like Jimmy Choo, Fresenius Medical Care, DBS etc.

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📈 My feature clients

🧪 The Vocab Today Project

This channel aims to provide you the best learning resources for language. We are creating videos that pronounce all interesting english words in the word in American accent. These videos also contain useful definitions and examples of use of the words for your reference. These are all great learning materials for you to master english and speak like a native speaker. Subscribe to this channel and play all the videos available on the channel. You can learn these vocabulary subconsciously!

🎙 Join my online courses

Below are my online courses. For my students or those who are interested to learn more, please check out the Python Learning Resources

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Python Full Stack Web Development with Google Cloud Service

You look at social platforms like facebook, twitter, have you ever imagined yourself being able to create one for yourself? Social web application is getting very popular, but to your surprise, it is not hard to build one. Have you ever imagined telling your friends that you can build a full stack web application from scratch all by yourself? You can learn it in this course!
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Learn Python in a day with 6 Projects

Programming is one of the very important skills that people value a lot in this era. Not only it can help you get a well-paid software engineer job, but it can also train your brain to think in a logically manner. We are sure you agree with that but you are not sure where and how to start. You may be scared by the complicated programming concept, or you may be scared away by the unfriendly code. Don’t worry, in this course, we will guide you how to create your first python application step by step.
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Learning Python Flask & SQL Alchemy ORM

In this course, we will show you how you can kick start your first web application, using Python Flask framework as the frontend and SQL Alchemy ORM to interactive with the backend database.
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Build a chatbot for your business in 3 hours

Maybe you have a business and are thinking about how you can create a better customer experience. This course is for you! We are going to show you step by step how you can create a facebook messenger chatbot using the chatfuel platform. The course is very simple and you don't need to have any prior knowledge about programming. And you can start building your chatbot right away after this one hour course.

🏡 Stay in my homestay

I have a clean and stylish apartment for rent in airbnb. It is located in the heart of Shenzhen, very close to Hong Kong! This is going to be perfect to visit two of the world most vibrant cities in one go!
Get an awesome stay here! 

📙 Purchase my book

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Book Description
Python is a flexible language that can be used for much more than just script development. By knowing how Python RESTful APIs work, you can build a powerful backend for web applications and mobile applications using Python.

You’ll take your first steps by building a simple API and learning how the frontend web interface can communicate with the backend. You’ll also learn how to serialize and deserialize objects using the marshmallow library. Then, you’ll learn how to authenticate and authorize users using Flask-JWT. You’ll also learn how to enhance your APIs by adding useful features, such as email, image upload, searching, and pagination. You’ll wrap up the whole book by deploying your APIs to the cloud.

By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence and skill to leverage the power of RESTful APIs and Python to build efficient web applications.

Check out the demo site – smile cook here. This is the web application that we guide you to build in this book!
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