Exercise 1:

Exercise the rest:

Reflection: I wanted to make the code easily readable so I declared length as a variable to use in the while loop

length = len(input)
while index < length:
    #prints string from end to front
    letter = input[length-1]
    print(letter)
    #increment/decrement
    index = index + 1
    length = length - 1

resulting in:

Please enter a string: hello
o
l
l

but instead it made the code only print out the string in reverse until index and length became the same value… So I just chucked that idea and went back to using len(input) in the while loop. The other problem I ran into was getting the first counter to count the instances of the letter you were looking for and not the entire string, but then I realized I left out an if statement and that fixed the problem. Python is pretty cool in the way you can splice a string, Java doesn’t handle substrings nearly as well.