Thanks to everyone who joined us live for the 4th episode of Beep Boop with the Microsoft Reactor- we showed off our basketball game web app that we created using a Microsoft Learn module, and started a super cool new module where we're building a new web app with AI capabilities, thanks to Azure Cognitive Services! 👩‍💻👩🏽‍💻

If you missed the fun live, don't worry- you can watch the replay here on YouTube, and in the embedded video below!

On this episode we cover:

• 6:01 We refresh everyone on what Beep Boop is all about 💕

• 8:40 We talk about where/how ML and AI showed up in our lives over the past week 🤖

• 13:08 Previously on Beep Boop... we catch folks up on what they missed last episode - we show off the web app we built with Azure and VS Code! You can play with a version of the app online 🔁🏀

• 24:45 Chloe introduces the Microsoft Learn module we'll be working on in this session, building an AI web app using Python and Flask in VS Code! 🐍💻

• 28:13 We double check that we have VS Code and the correct version of Python installed, and create the project directory for our web app 📁

• 30:55 Chloe gives us an overview of Flask, we create and activate a Python virtual environment, and install Flask and other libraries inside of the environment. 👩🏽‍💻📚

• 37:23 Ornella shares a hot tip for productivity in VS Code 🤓😎

• 39:55 Chloe goes over the Flask fundamentals - routes (no relation to GPS), methods/verbs, and templates 📍🔣

• 46:11 We create our core Flask application and add the HTML template ⌨️🖱

• 52:35 We get a first glimpse of the web app we made using flask! 🥳🥰

• 59:05 Franklin answers the question of the day 🐶🦴

Did you have fun? Check out Beep Boop 5: Recap and Preview of Season 2 where we finish up our web app and wrap up Season 1 of Beep Boop!

To get ready for next week’s session, make sure you set up your student Azure account so you can use Azure Cognitive Services alongside us!