Reflection

I thought that this project was a great first experience in building a zero-ui application. Because I had an original vision of what I wanted this chatbot to be but not the skills to create that vision, I was forced to think about how I can achieve my original vision but at a scale that was feasible for my skill level. I always think that having to think outside of the box and work around restrictions is always a good learning experience. But I think for the next project, I will start with a small scale vision of my grand vision of the project from the beginning, so I don't get as frustrated from the start. I think I am started to understand the basics of the ruby code language but it has been difficult for me. I am finding that the more I practice the more I understand it so I want to continue on building this little bot on my own. I shared it with my family and they think it is funny because they can see Frasier's personality in the bot already, so I think it would be fun to make it more robust and try out some other methods, etc. I definitely want to try to figure out adding the giphy api and the spontaneous interruptions. I also think it would be fun to add actual pictures and gifs of Frasier doing things instead of gifs of random dogs.