Reflection:

Below I have listed my milestones from the last class and below that I have my revised milestones. I completed several of my milestones, including some I did not anticpate on completing until later on. Some of the milestones I had listed under the “to be scheduled” section were actually some of the ones I started on or finished first. To me this reflects my programming style–I have goals in mind, but I don’t always complete them in the order I originally intend to. I work on goals as I get ideas and inspiration for them.

While working on some of the different options for my program, I realized that I should format the data in a more visual appearing way for options that won’t use a visual data printout. This is something I will make sure to include in my program and I have listed it as a new milestone to make sure I don’t forget.

My plan is to focus on creating more options and to start woring on creating at least one visual data text printout in the next few days. I have included realistic goals as well as some stretch goals that I would like to attempt once I have most of the requirements and major components of my program completed.

Milestones from last class:

For Next Tues:

• [x] determine what fields to include in data file

• [x] create multiple data files using mockaroo –data files will be membership information for an organization

• [x] upload data files as csv files into python3 trinket

• [x] determine how many options I will have (and what each option will do) –goal is to have at least 2 created by Tues.

• [x] create function that counts number of people who work at each company (one option)

• [x] create & use a dictionary (use a dictionary to go through file and count how many people work for each company)

• [x] include definite for loop (one place could be when creating a dictionary that counts number of people that work for each company)

• [x] create functions that count number of people in each state, gender, etc. (another option idea)

To be Scheduled:

• [ ] help text –accessible throughout program

• [x] way to exit the program

• [x] create an iterative interface

• [x] text based interface

• [ ] use functions mentioned previously to create a visual data text printout (horizontal histogram)

• [ ] allow users to determine what information they will look at in the visual data text printout (state, company, etc.)

• [ ] comment code

• [ ] runs without errors

Milestones I will work on next:

• [ ] create more options for program (since the next class is two days from this one, this will be the primary milestone I work on, the other ones mentioned below will be my focus over the weekend

• [ ] visual data text printouts

To be scheduled Milestones:

• [ ] deal with user error –using try/except, or if/elif?

• [ ] help text –accessible throughout program

• [ ] comment code

• [ ] runs without errors

• [ ] format results from each option

Stretch Milestone:

• [ ] create at least one visual data text printout that is a vertical histogram

• [ ] use Cloud9

• [ ] compare data from two different csv files at the same time