Generated Web Site for Sports Club
Your task in this assignment is to write a Python program that generates a small web site for a local sports club. It will read some input data from a text file (e.g., a spreadsheet in comma-separated- values, or CSV, format) and automatically generate several web pages with links going between the pages. The idea is that as the season progresses, and more games are played, your program will be run on the updated input data each week or each month to automatically generate an updated web site that shows the latest results.
Each web page should show a different aspect of the club activities. For example, you might have one web page for each team in the club, with that page displaying all the games that that team has played, with the scores shown for each game (and possibly the schedule of future games to be played). Or you might have a different page for each grade or age level, showing all the teams and results for that grade. Some of your pages must have photos and graphs.
There must be one top-level page, called index.html, that is the entry point for the web site. This must describe the whole club, and should have links to all the other pages.
Input Data
You first task is to choose a sport or club, and get some suitable input data.. If you play a sport yourself, see if you can get some data files for your sport. Or talk to friends and relatives and see if they are involved in any clubs or sports that would like to have a prototype web site generated for them.
If you cannot find, beg, or borrow any real data for a sports club, there are web sites that list teams and results for many different local sports:
- Fox Sports Pulse: https://sportstg.com/our-sports-network
- Super Netball: https://supernetball.com.au (but cleaner data from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Suncorp_Super_Netball_season );
- Sunshine Coast Football Club: https://au.soccerway.com/teams/australia/sunshine-coast-fc/12831/matches/
- Sunshine Coast School Sport: https://sunshinesport.eq.edu.au
Some of them have results for previous years, as well as partial results for this year. So choose a sport you are passionate about, and copy some grades, team names, and even scores from those pages and put them into a CSV file. You need enough data to be able to generate several interesting web pages - ideally your CSV file should have at least 6 useful columns and a hundred or more rows. If you cannot find a local sports club, you can use your favourite national club.
Learning Objectives
In this assignment you will learn how to:
1. use top-down design to divide a larger data processing task into parts;
2. use Python to read and write text files (CSV data files);
3. use functions to raise the abstraction level of your program;
4. analyse data to produce graphs and summary statistics;
5. use string and list methods to generate HTML.