June 5th - Genius Hour Blog #11

Sneak preview of the random number generator 👀
    There is now less than one week until we present our genius hour projects to our peers, and I am very proud to say I finished my project. I have 3 projects done, and while it really isn't the 4 I was hoping for, it isn't exactly reasonable to program, debug, and comment another program in a week when I have no idea what I want to even do with it. Over the past week leading up to last Monday, I spent a lot of my time in this class working on the vending machine project I mostly did for fun, but realized it was a good way to show what I knew. There is now an entirely new function that loops if the input it not correct, and there aren't anymore bugs that I encountered. The whole program is also commented so anyone looking can have a good idea of how it works. However, there was an issue with the random number generator but it was fixed in a couple of keystrokes. Apparently before if the range was small it didn't work, which was unfortunate but its fixed so who cares? Honestly it felt really good to finish my programs a week ahead of schedule so I can play around and fix any bugs over the next 6 days if I encounter any. Also it gives me free time so I can play Stardew Valley at home instead of working on this! 

    The next step in my project will be to figure out how I want to present the project. There are 2 options. I can allow the people that come by to play with all 3, or I can showcase them. I'm leaning towards the first one because its more interactive for the people that come by and I don't have to talk as much. I learned about algorithms and the reverse function within it for my random number generator but that will not be included as a function because STRINGS DONT WORK AHHHHH WHERES MY REAL COMPILER erm I mean unfortunately the compiler doesn't work with strings for some reason. I'm 100% ready for next week with some help from peers testing the program. I've already had Taylor test my project, and he felt it was interesting but not something one would spend a lot of time looking at, which is fine. Hopefully there are no problems leading up to Monday, and the next blog should come in on Tuesday and talk about what a great success Monday was.

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