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Building an AI Cooking Helper with Flask

Build an AI-powered cooking assistant with Flask. Learn backend design, SQLAlchemy, and RESTful APIs for recipes and reviews. Use OpenAI to generate recipes, extract from HTML with prompt engineering, add Text-to-Speech, and automate workflows with Python.

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API Integration, Design, & Development

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Data Management and Database Querying

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Server-Side Programming

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Flask

Python

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Course 2

Building the Recipe API: Retrieval, Search, and Filter

4 lessons

22 practices

Build essential API endpoints to make your app interactive and data-driven. Retrieve single, random, or popular recipes, browse with pagination, and filter by ingredients. Add serialization, error handling, and a script to remove duplicates, turning your backend into a dynamic, queryable service.

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Course 3

Recipe Generation & Extraction with AI

5 lessons

25 practices

Add intelligence to your app using OpenAI’s LLMs. Learn to generate structured recipes from ingredients with prompt engineering, render dynamic prompts, call the API, and process outputs. Build a script to extract recipes from messy HTML and store them cleanly. Your app will now auto-generate and parse recipes.

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Course 4

Final Additions to our Smart Cooking API

3 lessons

17 practices

Add final touches to your app for better interactivity. Use gTTS for Text-to-Speech recipe playback, let users submit reviews and ratings, and list all ingredients. Build a script to export recipes to CSV. These features make your assistant ready for real users seeking culinary inspiration.

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Hear what our customers have to say about CodeSignal Learn

I'm impressed by the quality and can't stop recommending it. It's also a lot of fun!

Francisco Aguilar Meléndez

Data Scientist

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I love that it's personalized. When I'm stuck, I don't have to hope my Google searches come out successful. The AI mentor Cosmo knows exactly what I need.

Faith Yim

Software Engineer

+14

It's an amazing product and exceeded my expectations, helping me prepare for my job interviews. Hands-on learning requires you to actually know what you are doing.

Alex Bush

Full Stack Engineer

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Abbey Helterbran

Tech consultant

I tried Leetcode but it was too disorganized. CodeSignal covers all the topics I'm interested in and is way more structured.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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