Most Valuable Professor

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A statistics based web-application that provides UIUC Professor's course data to students. Data includes percentage of A's earned, most common letter grade, student enrollment and general grade distribution.

Tutorial

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A comprehensive writeup is avaliable here.

Requirements

python >= 3.5

Getting started

git clone https://github.com/a2975667/flask-gcp-mysql-demo.git
cd flask-gcp-mysql-demo
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export FLASK_APP = app
flask run

Setting up GCP

Create a app.yaml file in the root folder with the following content:

runtime: python38 # or another supported version

instance_class: F1

env_variables:
  MYSQL_USER: <user_name> # please put in your credentials
  MYSQL_PASSWORD: <user_pw> # please put in your credentials
  MYSQL_DB: <database_name> # please put in your credentials
  MYSQL_HOST: <database_ip> # please put in your credentials

handlers:
# Matches requests to /images/... to files in static/images/...
- url: /img
  static_dir: static/img

- url: /script
  static_dir: static/script

- url: /styles
  static_dir: static/styles

Setting up the deployment

curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash
gcloud components install app-engine-python
gcloud config set project cs411-sp21
gcloud auth login
gcloud app deploy