CS257 Software Design
Friday, 4 November 2022

+ API design principles

- The entities involved
    - user (a human being)
    - browser (giant software application)
    - Javascript code (running inside the browser tab)
    - Server (written in Python using Flask)
  The API is the language used to allow the JS code
  to talk to the Server

- HTTP's GET as a request for a resource
- Endpoints as nouns
- Required input in URL components
- Optional input in GET parameters

+ Try these things
- Run my web apps
    - Get the latest copy of my repo
    - Look in webapps/
    - Read the readme
    - Try running and exploring app1, app2, and app3

- Create a web page that
    - has a dropdown list with some colors (red, green, blue,...)
    - when the user selects a color, the page's background
        color changes to that color

Feel free to take chunks of this from my html-samples and javascript-samples