For the Sinatra Project, I bounced around several ideas as to what the focus of the projecet should be. My wife had suggested creating a type of forum that allowed users to share recipes with one another and suggest recipes based on what you had in the fridge. I additionally thought about listing reviews for board games, since they are a personal hobby of mine. As I kept starting each idea, I found that it just wasn’t something that I wanted to do for this project and scrapped each idea early on.
After many days of working on the CLI Project, I have finally finished everything out! The journey wasn’t easy, especially not at first. I went through nearly two full days of trying to figure out ways to scrape the websites I was looking at. I kept getting stuck due to JavaScript, forms, and filters that were making scraping incredibly unpredictable and sometimes inaccessible. After these two days, the motivation was being drained out of me, but I finally landed on GameStop’s website, and I thought to myself that this looks more approachable than others have been.
When you think of coding, you think of all sorts of words and abbreviations and symbols combined together to get “something” done. For example, you might look at something like: