numberwords. This assignment seemed really daunting at first, but it
appears to be following a fairly straight forward pattern
Planning from the top down gave me to chance to break elements into
groups where definitions and functions could be similar, but accomplish
different tasks. I have not gotten it to work competely, but I am in the phase
where the errors appear to by typos, rather than reworking the entire project.
That is reassuring, however I wanted to take the chance to submit once before
these typos are complete and corrected, because I remember with other assignments
getting through the typo-phase, then having the code still throw errors.
On a different note, I have found it difficult to remember to submit my work as
I go. I just find myself in a zone and I almost forget to come up for air.
Once I find a pattern that appears to do what I want it to, then I get buckled in and
focused on copying that pattern exactly. I find that when I step away or take a break to reflect that
I have an extremely tough time getting back into it. i wonder if that is beause I am
not as experienced in coding? So, the trasnition in and out of the process if jarring.
m so that numbers, when entered, would be written out in
words.
This process was easy at first, then became more challenging as the
numbers became larger. That sounds obvious and somewhat reductive, but it
is true. The digits are easy to understand. Numbers 1-9 need to be
defined and so you create a list and define them.
It also made sense to look for those same patterns that occur
in numbers. To group numbers with like numbers as the digits were grouped.
For example numbers that end in Teen or the Tens. It hepled to think of these
in two ways. The first step I took was to write a number in the
millions, read it out loud, then start dividing it into pieces based off of what I said.
As I did this I thought it might be a fun way to think about top-down planning.
If you gave students a receipe or number and had them read it out loud and based on
what you say create like-groups or steps, then think about how to implement them or
how onecould use similar solutions to tackle similar problems.
Rebecca Hankey
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