📅 2025-05-13 — Session: Refactored and Enhanced Course Management System
🕒 17:05–17:45
🏷️ Labels: Python, Javascript, Flask, Dynamic Rendering, Course Management
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to refactor and enhance the course management system by improving modularity, scalability, and dynamic rendering capabilities.
Key Activities
- Implemented Python functions for retrieving filenames and exercise IDs based on canonical course IDs, focusing on modularity and scalability.
- Compared legacy and new JavaScript code for fetching exercises, identifying compatibility issues and formulating a hybrid solution.
- Developed a hybrid logic for exercise table rendering, combining legacy and dynamic generation based on CSV data.
- Implemented a dynamic frontend logic using JavaScript and
index.csvfor flexible course content management. - Revised HTML structures for dynamic rendering of exercise sections, enhancing modularity and flexibility.
- Updated Flask routes to accommodate new URL patterns with course identifiers and improved error handling.
- Debugged a 404 error in Flask for accessing exercise files, including checks for file existence and route conflicts.
- Configured logging in Flask for better debugging and development visibility.
- Proposed a CSS layout update to enhance web page readability and visual structure.
Achievements
- Successfully refactored Python functions for better modularity in course management.
- Developed a hybrid solution for exercise fetching, ensuring backward compatibility and future flexibility.
- Enhanced frontend rendering logic with dynamic and modular structures.
- Improved Flask routing and error handling for course-specific exercises.
- Established a robust logging configuration in Flask for development.
- Proposed CSS improvements for better readability and user experience.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of the new Flask routes and logging configurations.
- Implementation of optional CSS extras for mobile responsiveness.