Intention

The purpose of this project was to develop a mini chatbot that used Ruby to gain a basic understanding of how the ruby language works and how the basic code structure is laid out. In addition, it also served as a way to get us to start thinking about the work that goes into developing a personality for a Zero-UI application. After being introduced to this project, I knew that I wanted to develop a chatbot that had the personality of my dog, Frasier. I have already projected a persona on my dog and have given him things that I believe are his favorite things, like music and movies, so I thought this project would be a fun way to develop that persona of Frasier into a tangible application that other people could interact with. And I thought it would be a way to make learning code fun, especially because this is my first time coding and I knew it was going to be a learning curve. In addition, going into this project, I knew I wanted to incorporate gifs and emojis into the conversation I develop.