UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM CATALOGUE

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ABOUT

An application that provides a list of universities within a variety of courses as well as provide a user registration and authentication system. Registered users will have the ability to post, edit and delete their own items.

Prerequisite knowledge:

• Python

• SQL

• HTML

• CSS

• JS

Additional Tools used:

• Vagrant

• VirtualBox

• Git commands

• PEP 8

• OAUTH

• FLASK

• REQUESTS

SETUP

Install virtual machine

Install vagrant

Clone the fullstack-nanodegree-vm repository

Clone the university app and add it to the vagrant dir.

STEPS TO RUN THE APPLICATION

Launch the Vagrant VM from inside the vagrant folder with: vagrant up

Then access the shell with:
vagrant ssh

Then move inside the universityapp directory: cd /vagrant/UniversityApp

Then run the application(note, this uses python2): python finalproject.py

After the last command you are able to browse the application at this URL:
http://localhost:5000/

Optional Steps-:

to run the finaldatabase_setup.py python3 finaldatabase_setup.py

to populate the database
Clone the finallotsofcourses.py file then run python3 finallotsofcourses.py

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE

Agile methodlogy was followed in this project.

ITERATIONS:-

1: MOCKUPS

Mockups and routes decided.

2: ROUTING

finalproject.py created and routes added and tested.

3: TEMPLATES & FORMS

All html added in /templates dir and necessary code added to finalproject.py and all html pages are tested.

4: DATABASE CREATION & POPULATION

finaldatabase_setup.py created and populated with finallotsofcourses.py.

Checked curriculum.db using sqlitebrowser.

5: CRUD FUNCTIONALITY

All the functions for creating, reading, updating,deleting university and courses added. And then finalproject.py is tested with all the functionalities.

6: API ENDPOINTS

Then all the JSON routes were created and app was tested.

7: STYLING & MESSAGE FLASHING

Then message flashing was added in finalproject.py and all html pages in /templates dir.

Css was added in the /static dir.

8. AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION

Oauth was integrated with the app and tested and necessary changes were made to the code.

NOTE: all the pictures of the app are available in the pictures directory.

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CONCEPTS LEARNT

how to develop a RESTful web application using the Python framework Flask along with implementing third-party OAuth authentication.

How to properly use the various HTTP methods available to you and how these methods relate to CRUD (create, read, update and delete) operations.

Efficiently interacting with data which is the backbone upon which performant web applications are built

Properly implementing authentication mechanisms and appropriately mapping HTTP methods to CRUD operations are core features of a properly secured web application

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LICENSE

MIT ©2019 Muskan Kalsi