Fundamentals of Programming Languages

 

To help myself make edits much easier I changed the overall line up of how I organized different functions. I started by listing my containers and assigned them to a value, list, or string. I copy pasted my option used for input and instead this time used a try, except, return to filter code. I really got a lot of help using this site : https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_try_except.asp in addition to I took taking a few tips out of chapters 9’s sections 1 & 2. This turned out to work smoothly with my print functions for inputs used in the “options” menu. I needed to clean up my space in the “Run” environment, so I took note from our recent discussion on clearing IDLE and remembers using “cls” and ‘\n’ assigned together allowed us to make more space. After spending time going through chapter 7, I had a better understanding of setting up lists and restructured my “All Employees” view. I applied some spacing to clean things up along with an if, else loop that was based on the range starting from 0. I then used string formatting to help clean up the printed results. I continue to mix in for, if, else and try except filter exception functions to help bounce the user back to each menu by either typing MENU in all caps or ADD in some examples in which I repeated the code. In order for the entire process to complete I needed to create a loop option at the end that would allow the process to start over so I utilize a while and if  loop which took several attempts, so I found a mode function example on w3schools and this worked by linking them to the inputs 1 -4. I spent several days trying to setup the same results using some of the more advanced string format methods but gave up and took what I understood and moved on to handling exceptions instead. It’s fascinating how different approaches get the have outcome or similar.