Milestones

• Set up Cloud9 workspace
• Import CSV files
• Write starter code to read files

For Thursday:

• Set up separate Github repo
• Clean up data or figure out another way to deal with commas in file names
• Write code to print out summary of file
• Deal with bad user input (wrong type of file, etc)
• Determine what options will be available on main menu (and secondary menu(s), if needed)
• First option should be print out column headers and allow user to choose one

For later:

• Code the other options (once I figure them out)
• Write code to create visualizations
• Create Github repo
• Push code to Github repo

Narrative

I will be completely honest – I have not had time to do any work on this project since Thursday. I was gone all weekend, and I have a project and presentation due tomorrow in another class. That being said, I am hopeful that I will be able to do good, consistent work on the project for the next couple of weeks. I made the realization on Tuesday that I would have to do a fair amount of data cleanup, because commas within file names are reading as delimiters, even if I use tab delimited files. This makes splitting up lists and strings incredibly difficult. Once I overcome this hurdle, I will need to determine what data analysis option I want to offer to my users. As long as I do not choose anything too ambitious, this will hopefully not be too difficult to code – I feel pretty comfortable with lists and dictionaries now. Hopefully after this other project is done, I will be able to work on these new milestones for Thursday.