Trinket:

Reflection:

I accomplished all of my milestones again! The capitalization was quick - I just converted the cDNA to upper case and the gDNA to lower case in one line each. The difference is so the user doesn’t get confused.

I then started moving blocks of code around to add functions and ran into an issue. It seemed for a while that Trinket wanted me to define each function before calling it, so the order of my code is, essentially, flipped from what I’d like it to be (chronological/what happens when). I sketched this out on paper to make sure I wasn’t messing it up (I’ll bring this to class on Tuesday). I then realized that the order is not the problem because I can call gDNA_options or cDNA_options in each capability before I define it - this is the iterative aspect of the program where the menu prints again so the user can do more things. I’m thus not sure what the problem is. I looked back at my Game App and I definitely called functions before defining them there. This is also why I have two help functions rather than one - the calling order didn’t work if the function was on the main menu and on the two sub-menus. The error message is “NameError name ‘cDNA_options’ is not defined” when I move the “Main Menu” section from the bottom of the code to just after the initial user input section.

I also had a problem (this might be part of the same larger problem) with moving functions into separate modules to pare main.py down a little. Hopefully I can fix these two problems (Milestone #2 for Friday). I think that every functional problem has been solved and these are just style points. Thus, I’d like to fix them, but won’t go crazy if I can’t.

The visualization part was fun. My plan in my original set of milestones was to visualize the % AT/CG content, but I ended up visualizing the 20 types of codons. This was not very hard to code and is a lot more readable than the long sentence with the number of each amino acid. At first, I had zero tabs after each codon name and before the asterisks. Then I added tabs to all of them so it was clearer. Then I deleted tabs from the codons whose names are longer than a single tab. Then I declared myself done with that portion of the assignment.

Tuesday’s Milestones:

• fix capitalization
• program has help function, accessible by user input
• program is iterable
• program has visual component

For Friday:

• debug
• fix calling and moving function problem(s), if possible
• make code pretty (conciseness, comments, consistency). I’m giving myself style points for alliteration here.