Week 3 CST 338

Dakota and Mohamed recommended that I use more comments that would make my code more accessible to someone who was looking at it for the first time and also to make sure that my use of white space and code formatting was consistent. These are both things I have been told before and I think that the chaotic nature of the formatting of my code comes in part from the way that I think. I know that it is something that I need to work on and will focus on it in the future, The part of the code that was the biggest struggle for me was the debug method. Trying to get the output to look aesthetically pleasing but also making sure my code wasn't overly complex took me quite some time. Most of the other parts of Homework 1 I would consider as easy especially with IntelliJ making creating getters and setters very easy. My biggest victory was figuring out how to use string builder and modifying the output given to string builder. 

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