Flask By Example

Preface

In theory, nothing works, but everyone knows why. In practice, everything works but no one knows why. Here, we combine theory and practice; nothing works and no one knows why!

Learning computer science must always be a combination of theory and practice; you need to know what you're doing (theory), but you also need to know how to do it (practice). My experience of learning how to create web applications was that few teachers found a sweet spot for this balance; either I read pages and pages about inheritance, virtual environments, and test-driven development, wondering how it all applied to me, or I installed a bunch of tools and frameworks and libraries and watched the magic happen with no idea how it worked.

What follows is, I hope, a ...