My-checkout-app-backend powers the checkout system assessment project. It receives cart list from the Frontend and returns a value in dollars/cent of the cart items. While making provisions for discounted and non discounted sales.

• Flask provides simplicity, flexibility and fine-grained control. It is unopinionated (it lets you decide how you want to implement things).
• It allows the use of as few dependencies as required which other more fleshed out frameworks lack.
• Flask accelerates development of simple web applications by providing the required functionalities.
• Timing: Development time with Flask is shorter when compared to it's Django counterpart when working on projects of this scale.

A sequential programming model was adopted as project requirements are well defined, established and stable.

Choosing Procedural programming came in handy allowing for breaking down the programming task into a collection of variables, data structures, and subroutines.