I think this lab was challenging, and I'm not sure if I did it the
way we were supposed to, because I had to search how to use multiple
lists the way I wanted to, which was using zip. I tried adding the two
lists but it didn't seem like that would get my what I wanted, and also
it didn't work. I got stuck on getting the points drawn properly for a
while; first, I got a single point, then I was able to get a vertical
line of points, and then I got identical vertical lines of points at
each of the x-values (when I had the y for loop nested inside of the
x for loop).
I think the top-down vs. bottom-up approaches aren't really separate,
but you have to go back and forth between them because the top-down
approach helps to identify some of the pieces you need to work bottom-
up from.
I felt like at the beginning, I thought the program would use some of
the stuff we did in the pipes lab, so that informed my top-down plan.
Another program I thought about writing during this lab was one that
could take a csv file and identify different common elements and group
them and display them, but that has more to do with other tasks I was
doing than this lab probably, but I still think that some of the things
here probably helped me think about breaking that down into smaller
pieces.
My axes are good and then I got to where the last point was being
drawn (just one), and now all of the points are being drawn, but they
all have the same x-position because I have draw_points in a list
for y_value in y_values. I just wanted to submit to update my progress,
but I think I have to use both lists, but when I've tried it ends up
with an error.
so I made another superturtle clone python file (superturtlescat.py)
for now. I also changed some of the functions to try to get the
scatterplot to be drawn properly, but it's still in progress.
root
sscheuneman