HTML Flask Prep

Overview

It’s time to start making your websites look fancier! We’ll be using HTML with your Flask apps to format your websites and today’s preparation is focused on what HTML is and how it will connect with Flask.

Basic Learning Objectives

Before class, you should be able to:

• Explain what HTML is and its basic syntax
• Write a basic HTML page
• Identify Flask variables in an HTML template

Advanced Learning Objectives

After class, you should be able to:

• Create HTML templates for your Flask app
• Use placeholders in your HTML templates

Readings

To achieve the basic learning objectives, you should read the following before class:

• Introduction - very quick intro and definitions
• HTML - this section demonstrates what I like about this book, you can run and change the code
• Flask Templates - how to connect Python code to HTML files
• Jinja cheatsheet

Checks

Submit answers to the following on Moodle:

• What is a template that you want to make for your team project?
• What variable(s) would you pass to that template?