Reflection 3
In a Bit of a Stump
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Reflection #3 — In a Bit of a Stump
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Reflection #3 — In a Bit of a Stump
(Resilient, Persistent, and Adaptable Achiever & Insightful and Strategic Researcher)
Since my last reflection, I began going into the coding aspect of my project in a fully fledged manner. Before this point, I was working on the code in my app every couple of days—in alterations with the app layout—but after the second reflection I really wanted to write and finish the code. When starting to work, I basically researched videos and tutorials on the Thunkable help website (it was one of my goals from the latest reflection), however there wasn't any solid information on how to make a list, which is in block code (or can easily be translated into it) that is able to have every word from a sentence show up on the screen consecutively on the screen. So, what I did, was I just went back to my favorite "data base" called Youtube and searched up how to make the series of block code that I was looking for. Now, you may or may not be asking yourself, what were the videos I found? Well, there are, understandably, a few (including some that are not even nearly related to the topic at hand): 1, 2, 3. After Youtube, I started looking for written forums that might have people who are trying to achieve similar outcomes for their projects. I actually found two (1, 2) promising quite quickly, but the downfall was the fact that they were in written code and not block code and I'm not skilled enough yet to translate between the two. Funny enough, I was actually the one to find what I was looking for; As a desperate attempt, after both Thunkable help and Youtube had failed me, I was looking through the code blocks and found the code below:
To be fair, I really had no clue that I had to search in the list section of the coding blocks, but I eventually found the block that I needed which allows me to make a list from text, the text that the user enters, with a delimiter, or a specified boundary, of just a space. Considering the overall time it took me to even find that piece of code, I would definitely say I have not been able to reach the Insightful and Strategic Researcher goals I set for myself last reflection. In order to change this, I think a self evident way would be to first scroll through the list of blocks, simply as a quick scan, before scouring the internet trying to find a similar arrangement. Now, although I have the block I have no idea how to use it, or how I incorporate it into the rest of my code so far. So, my next step for this is the infamous Thunkable help website. Since I now know that I am looking for how to use a block of code under the list section, I can just search up "list" and, hopefully, find a description or example on how to use the block.
Moving forward, I definitely want to have my code done by the end of winter break. As mentioned earlier, in order to grow as an Insightful and Strategic Researcher I want to continue to use keywords, as I did in earlier reflections, yet use them in the proper base of information—For instance, instead of youtube, I would use them in the Thunkable help website. The next few steps I plan to take with my project include the "make list from text... with delimiter..." block and finish the part of the code that allows the individual words be displayed on the user's screen.
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