Flask.md

Getting started with Flask

To develop a Flask app, you need to get familar with HTML, CSS and Python. We have lectures, which cover that:

• HTML
  https://github.com/WomensCodingCircle/HTML-CSS-West

• Python
  https://github.com/WomensCodingCircle/CodingCirclePython
  You need to know about loops, conditions, Python classes and dictionaries

Regarding Flask, it is helpful to get familiar with the following terms and concepts:

• Models
  http://flask-sqlalchemy.pocoo.org/2.3/models/
• Views
  http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/views/
• Routes
  http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/api/#url-route-registrations
• Jinja2 Template Engine
  http://jinja.pocoo.org

Knowing about MVC and E-R-Modeling helps to understand Flask views, models and how to the design the Model classes in models.py:

• MVC
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller
• Entity-Relationship Modeling
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93relationship_model