I’m sorry, but I hate group work. There’s always someone who is slacking off and this time it was me. I’ve never been the slacker before, but here we are. It started because I couldn’t load Cloud 9 and so I had to commit my changes directly to the repository. By the time it loaded, my group members had started work on the script independently. I was also sitting in the back row, behind my group so that didn’t help either. As it turned out, they each wrote their own script when I thought that we were collaborating. Guess I messed up the group part of the work as well.

I tried to be helpful, but I couldn’t figure out how to help. I Googled “random character string” repeatedly and didn’t come up with anything useful. Even if I had, I would have been nervous to try it because I might have screwed up a working script. In the end, the only thing I did was collaborate on the questions and insert said questions into the script. I also ran the script twice and didn’t completely blow the thing up, so that was good.

Once I saw that the script was running, I made a copy of the part of the script that generated the random character string. I played around with it and figured out how to manipulate the commands to change the output. For example, I took out the ‘a-zA-Z’ and left the ‘0-9’ to create a completely numeric string. I also changed the number of characters it spits out. So I have a better idea of how it works. I also tried reverse Googling the commands so I could see what I missed, but that didn’t work. I have a feeling that this will all catch up with me during the next assignment.

https://github.com/gma96/braid-assignment-4

Me:

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