Anusha's Poetry Slam

by Anusha Suresh

01 Jun 2017

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And my reflection: For some reason it took me a long time to figure this out. By the time I got to the end, I had tried such a variety of things including defintions and while loops and try blocks. Lo and behold, the solution was a combination of all of these. I started first with while loops and when it wasn’t working, I tried to make a defintion to make the words move lines, but I realized quickly that was a really complicated way of doing it. Try blocks were included in all of my trials. I came to a point where everything I was doing resulted in the same thing, the words printing next to each other and on top of each other. Then I figured the \n should work, but it only added a space between words. Then I tried a for loop, this one ended up with words printing on top of and next to each other. Then I thought about it and remembered the count method exercise we were doing and some of the things from clicky turtles and treasure hunt and came to this solution. I don’t fully understand it yet, but I think I mostly do. I was really suprised to learn that the placement of the input line is crucial. Actually, I learned that one the hard way. In the future, I hope to be able to understand enough to do the advanced part of the activity. Finally, there is one bug, the program prints done, but it also stops the program. I’m not sure how to make it not write done.

I am currently a rising junior here at UNC. I am hoping to be an INLS major, though I am currently a minor. In regards to this class, I have tried programming several times before with no success, but I am determined to learn something from this course. I love the fall, cookies and cream milkshakes(plus points if it's a malted shake), and jokes (good and bad, mostly). Find Anusha Suresh on Twitter, Github, and on the web.