Sockets - Karla Guadron

[kguadron]

Portmanteau Generator

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What went well in your code style, such as indentation, spacing, variable names, readability, etc.? What was lacking?	Styling, keeping track of indentations, and separating code into chunks that made sense went well. I am improving at giving my variable more suitable and descriptive names. I struggled with mapping the indexes and identifying the range of the indices for the letters I wanted to submit.
How did creating the is_vowel? method affect your project?	It helped with iterating through each letter in the user's words in order to identify which indices to use to determine the chunk of the word that would be added to the portmanteau. It also proved to be handy for the condition that checked if the word had no vowels at all.
What was your strategy for getting the correct set of letters from the first word into the portmanteau?	My strategy was to create a new first word variable and an index variable and to iterate through the letters in the first word in reverse order. I subtracted 1 from the index variable (which was set to the total length of the word - 1) for every iteration where the letter wasn't a vowel. When the letter was a variable, the value of the index variable was used as the ending point in the range of the index that identified which letters from the first word would be assigned to the new first word which was then used in the portmanteau.
What was your strategy for validating against inputs under 2 characters?	I used an until loop that continued to prompt the user to input a word until the length of their word was at least 2 characters long.
In the next project, what will you change about your process? What will you keep doing?	I will ask for help sooner! I will continue to collaborate with peers!

[droberts-sea]

Portmanteau Generator

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Readable code with consistent indentation	yes
Practices using variables appropriately	yes
Practices using conditionals appropriately	yes
Practices iteration appropriately	yes
Practices using custom methods appropriately	yes
Program validates against input under 2 characters	yes
Takes in two inputs and creates a portmanteau	yes

Great job overall! I've left a few comments inline below where things could be cleaned up, but in general I am quite happy with this submission. Keep up the hard work!

[droberts-sea]

Nice use of a regular expression here! We'll talk about those more formally in a few weeks.

[droberts-sea]

Your code to get the second word is almost exactly the same as the code to get the first word. Could you DRY this up using another method?