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Flask By Example

By : Gareth Dwyer
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Flask By Example

By: Gareth Dwyer

Overview of this book

This book will take you on a journey from learning about web development using Flask to building fully functional web applications. In the first major project, we develop a dynamic Headlines application that displays the latest news headlines along with up-to-date currency and weather information. In project two, we build a Crime Map application that is backed by a MySQL database, allowing users to submit information on and the location of crimes in order to plot danger zones and other crime trends within an area. In the final project, we combine Flask with more modern technologies, such as Twitter's Bootstrap and the NoSQL database MongoDB, to create a Waiter Caller application that allows restaurant patrons to easily call a waiter to their table. This pragmatic tutorial will keep you engaged as you learn the crux of Flask by working on challenging real-world applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Flask By Example
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Burhan Khalid has always been tinkering with technology, from his early days on the XT to writing JCL on the ISPF editor, and from C and C++, Java, Pascal, and COBOL to his latest favorite, Python. As a lover of technology, he is most comfortable experimenting with the next big technology stack.

By day, he works in a multinational bank in the Alternative Channels unit, where he gets to hack on, develop, and test applications that help execute transactions across all manner of electronic devices and channels. In addition to his work, he also contributes to open source projects, having released a few toolkits for transaction processing, and he offers consultancy services to startups on their technology stacks and development processes.

He is an avid volunteer; he is a mentor for Sirdab Lab (a startup accelerator), a frequent speaker at the local Google Developer's Group, a presenter and volunteer at StartupQ8 (a startup community), and an active user on StackOverflow.

You can reach him on Twitter @burhan

Rahul Shelke is a cofounder of My Cute Office Pvt. Ltd. and Qpeka Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He also acts as an adviser for two other startups, and he helps startups in their growth.

Prior to starting his own venture, Rahul worked with Blisstering solutions for more than two years as a senior developer.

He is an MTech in computer science. His practical experience for the last five years has been in web development, cloud computing, business intelligence, system performance optimization, and software architecture design and development.

He has been actively involved in open source contributions since graduation, and he has contributed to Python, Python-Flask, and Drupal.