Devlog #4
7.5 hours total - (3.5 hours coding, 4 hours researching, working through bugs, brainstorming pipeline functions): Today was the big one. I got my dictionaries in mapper.py finalized and ready to be used, as well as finished up all my data processing/cleanup work in data-interpreter. Getting these hooked up was the first task. It took a while, but I eventually got all data processed and converted to the universal headers. I then ported this into main. After that, I created a function in physics.py to essentially wrap up all of my calculation functions and apply them to any data that it receives (I believe this is actually called a wrapper function, but I could be wrong). I did this so that, as opposed to making my main script messy and filled with different inputs and equations, I had all of those calculations still done and processed in physics.py, with the final calculations simply being called upon in main. Speaking of input, I also updated main to gather user input (in its own user_input() function). This way, the user can choose which data set they want to explore. This day got quite messy, and I found a variety of bugs within my code. Thankfully, there wasn’t anything too big, but it was a tedious process going through and fixing up all the small little things that were breaking my pipeline. Alas, I’ve got nearly everything done now. All the data gets processed and cleaned up in data_interpreter, and calculated through physics.py. It all gets linked up and routed in main. Now, all I really have to do is create the final H-R plot with matplotlib and write tests for all my functions. I’m very proud of today’s progress!
Please note - In my past devlogs on Stardance, I haven’t posted my exact time worked on the project as I have done so here. However, I have kept a genuine tracker updated each day in “notes.md” in the project folder. I focused more on the technical and personal side of things in these logs. While my logs in notes.md also focus on those aspects, they include my detailed logged time.