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Building a Dynamic Web Application with Flask
I am fortunate enough to have been around the field of web development since its inception. I was a software engineer before there was a World Wide Web, at least one used by the general public. I remember the first time someone asked me to build a web application. I had to ask what it was. The guy told me, and I remember thinking “Well that’s dumb! Why wouldn’t people just use CompuServe or America Online (AOL) for that?” I thought the internet was going to be, at best, a fad. It was complicated, loaded with jargon, the UI was terrible compared with online services of the day, and it all just seemed kind of janky. I guess I was wrong.
Once I figured that out, I learned HTML and JavaScript. CSS ...
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