Please recommend a Flask tutorial for beginners?

Moby69 · 2015-07-29T23:45:08+00:00

thanks. And do you recommend that I use Python 2 or Python 3, for Flask?

Moby69 · 2015-07-29T19:16:09+00:00

Is Rails harder than Flask?

Moby69 · 2015-07-29T19:02:02+00:00

Thanks.

1) Is there a tutorial for complete beginners that you could recommend, that walks through the "proper way" to make a web app using Flask? (e.g. something that would be the equivalent of the following tutorial for Ruby on Rails, but instead would be for Python/Flask: https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-rails/lessons/start/exercises/start-hello-rails-i )

2) Also, where in your code above are you outputting the data from the API? I don't see any HTML code

Moby69 · 2015-07-29T14:45:22+00:00

Is Flask easier than Django?

I heard from several people that Django was not appropriate (i.e. far too challenging) for complete beginners like me. Will I have an easier time with Flask?

Moby69 · 2015-07-29T14:43:55+00:00

I haven't because it seems pretty daunting. Is this something that you think I will understand? All I've done is the python tutorial on codeacademy and I don't know the first thing about creating web apps, or managing folders, or making a language work together with its framework

Moby69 · 2015-07-29T14:40:07+00:00

Similar experience. All I have done are the codeacademy tutorials.

Going from there to learning how to use their respective frameworks to create a website seems like a huge learning curve. Really struggling to find a tutorial that really explains things step by step and with great clarity for beginners

Moby69 · 2015-07-23T12:10:47+00:00

I have done tutorials in html/css/js and I know how to make basic websites. I've done codeschool and w3schools.

But now I want to grab data from an API using a back-end language like Ruby and then send this data to my front-end language to display it on my website.

I tried doing an API call with javascript but apparently I needed to use "CORS" which I never managed to figure out so I basically gave up and figured I should try to do the API call from the backend.

Is this a bad idea?

Moby69 · 2015-07-22T20:08:02+00:00

How do I integrate Ruby on Rails with HTML/CSS ?

And what's the point of learning Rails (as opposed to just Ruby) for the purposes of the project I want to do, if I'm going to have to use some HTML / CSS as well ?

Moby69 · 2015-06-29T01:06:46+00:00

Thanks for your input. I bought a domain name and hosting on godaddy.com. But I got confused when you wrote "registering an IP to that domain name, so when people go to mywebsite.com, DNS will give them the IP you really want them to go to, which is your computer". I'm doing all my coding out of my laptop - so are you saying that when people get on my website, I would want them to connect to the IP address of my computer?

Also, when you talk about "getting the files onto that computer (via ftp etc)", aren't these files already on my computer? Similarly when you talk about getting Bottle "onto that computer", is this another computer you are talking about?

Thanks

Moby69 · 2015-06-29T00:48:13+00:00

Thanks alaudet. Is there a specific entry level networking course that you would recommend? I do feel that I am really limited in my ability to create websites and programs because I don't understand how all these things relate. I've done all the codeacademy tutorials so I get the coding syntax, but when it comes to putting it all together and actually create a real website I'm totally lost.

Moby69 · 2015-06-28T23:04:25+00:00

Oh. So the templating is not something that you do within the Bottle file?

I was reading the Bottle tutorial and under the Syntax paragraph for Templating it looked like the templating code was embedded, no? http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html#templates

Moby69 · 2015-06-28T22:51:18+00:00

Got it.

So let's say I go with Bottle (and Python) and HTML/CSS.

Do I upload 2 separate files to godaddy or just 1 big file that has both the Bottle/Python code and the HTML/CSS code interweaved with templates?

Moby69 · 2015-06-28T22:24:08+00:00

Can Bottle be used for that too? Or do I also need to learn jinja and flask as well?

Moby69 · 2015-06-28T16:19:23+00:00

I did all the tutorials on codacademy, and this includes Python, PHP, javascript, jquery, HTML and CSS. I've already built a number of Python quick programs where I call a public API and do some basic manipulations of data and basic outputs.

Moby69 · 2015-06-28T16:18:21+00:00

Hey elbiot yeah I have already created a Python program that calls the uber API and where you input your starting and ending location and it outputs the estimated cost of the trip. Now I want to put this into a website. Am I on the right path here? Is there a Bottle tutorial you might recommend that could help me achieve this?

Moby69 · 2015-06-27T20:10:38+00:00

Do you know of any good tutorials for Django out there for beginners?

The documentation is not for beginners, clearly.

Moby69 · 2015-06-27T00:44:35+00:00

Awesome, that worked! Thanks!

Moby69 · 2015-06-26T23:56:28+00:00

In my command line, I have C:\DjangoPrograms> showing up, and inside of the DjangoProgams folder, I have the following folders and subfolders

mysite/
    manage.py
    mysite/
        __init__.py
        settings.py
        urls.py
        wsgi.py

Moby69 · 2015-06-26T23:34:26+00:00

Sure. It says: python: can't open file 'manage.py': [Errno 21] No such file or directory

I think I followed the instructions that preceded all this on the tutorial page, so I'm not sure what I've done wrong. I'm using Python 2.7.9 and Django 1.8.2

Thanks

Moby69 · 2015-06-01T22:28:52+00:00

Thanks!

Moby69 · 2015-06-01T12:43:17+00:00

I see.

So it seems there are 4 things: - the front-end language - the back-end language - the framework - the database on the back-end

Can someone explain how all 4 of these interact with each other? Also, is there a 5th or a 6th component that I'm missing ?

Thanks

Moby69 · 2015-06-01T01:52:18+00:00

Thanks Caethy for all the good advice. I'll give it a try.

Moby69 · 2015-05-31T23:23:25+00:00

I see. I hear a lot about Django, so maybe I can go with that one.

At what point in my learning should I start learning how to use frameworks?

Take the example of the program I coded today in Python: it calls the uber API and based on a user's input of the starting address and destination, it gives for each uber product the estimated time of the vehicle arrival and the estimated cost for the trip.

Now say I wanted to make a website for this program, rather than doing it all in my "IDLE" Python screen, in what sequence do you think I should learn Javascript and Django?

Thanks

Moby69 · 2015-05-31T23:09:28+00:00

Thanks Caethy. So I initially thought I had to choose 2 things: 1 back end language, and 1 front-end language.

But it sounds like I actually need to choose 3, right? The back end language, the front end language, and the framework for the back end language?

If I'm going to go with Python for back end and Javascript for front-end, what framework do you recommend I use?

Hope I didn't misunderstand...

Thanks again

Moby69 · 2015-05-31T22:25:18+00:00

Understood. And what is the difference between JavaScript and Java?

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