ECM2429-workshop-5-exercises

Web programming exercise

Run the musicplayer web app.

See the instructions here flask_demo/README.md

Consider these user stories

• As a user I want to save playlists

• As a user I want to share my playlists

• As a user I want to play playlists shared with me

How would you go about designing these features?

Which would you implement first?

What skills and knowledge will this require?

Where would you find what you need to know?

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How does the web work?

Requests are sent to servers, and responses received.

These request and response messages are text strings, but to simplify building software the messages are modelled as objects in whatever programming language you are using.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Messages

Why learn web programming?

Web programming skills are in demand.

https://bootcamp.berkeley.edu/blog/most-in-demand-programming-languages/

https://statisticsanddata.org/data/the-most-popular-programming-languages-1965-2021/

HTML guides

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML