- We introduced the Python language - syntax, arrays, dicts, functions and file structure idioms.
- We setup a local python environment using
brew install python. - We setup a docker-ized server stack: NGINX talking to Python's Gunicorn talking to PostgreSQL.
- We roughly followed this tutorial, except we did not use the data container feature to keep things simple. Our docker-compose.yaml is in slack
- Flask is a good Python framework with easy-to-understand routing and simple idioms that makes it easy to specify your API in terms of paths and the REST vocabulary (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE).
- Hat-tip to Tim for the great tutorial for Building a RESTful API in Flask and this Flask-based HOW-TO guide cover things like authentication and much more.
- Earn your first point for last week's homework by pasting your story into your teams github project page -or- linking from the github project page to the story in your project management system, like waffle.io or Trello.
- Every Team will present their story Demo next Weds. Maximum presentation time is 3-mins per team! detailed instructions for the format of your presentation to follow.