##1st code reflection

The original assignment asks for us to complete the following to-dos:

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TODOS

- Feature: Put the interface in a while loop so that the user can do multiple things

- Feature: Create a new main menu option so that user can exit the program

- Refactor: Make selecting of columns_to_print a function, and call it

- Feature: Allow user to re-select which columns get printed

- Test: Ensure program uses new selected columns

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- Refactor: Make creating the row_dicts_list into a function, and call it

- Feature: Use get_csv_filename to let the user select a new file

- Feature: Use the selected filename to create a new row_dicts_list

- Test: Ensure user is able to select ischools-messy.csv

(Note: program will not work in the same way; that’s fine)

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###I’d like to talk about the second feature found in the todos – it asks that we “create a new main menu option so that the user can exit the program. This requires us to edit the code to include a fifth option:

menu_dict = {
  "1" : "Browse rows of data",
  "2" : "Print specific row",
  "3" : "Select columns to print",
  "4" : "Change data file",
  "5" : "Exit"
}

###I did that first, because it seemed easy. Definitely a lightbulb moment! (Not many of those in this assignment for me.) And it was with using dictionaries, which is a relatively new concept for the class. ###Then I proceeded to actually create the new menu option by adding this code:

elif choice_str == "5":
  print("Goodbye")
  break

###I forgot about needing to include the “break” line of code at first. Also, a random aside – why are we coding in both main.py and interface.py?I tried to find documentation online that explained this but came up empty.

###The trinket for the 1st part of the assignment/what I’ve described above is below:

##2nc code reflection

###I did not find the rest of this assignment easy at all. The textbook is pretty easy to follow, but I didn’t think it prepared me for the task of actually writing code to modify csv files. With Professor Houser’s work in class, the code completed can be found here: