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Building My Studio Ghibli CLI Application

The following summarizes the 3 phase process through which I was able to build my CLI program from beginning to end.  Project Planning During the initial project planning mode, I had some difficulty coming up with a project that would meet the project requirements and be unique to me. After some mulling about, I initially set my heart out to build a program that gives the user information on local bakeries with the best croissants in San Franciso. I found a pretty good site to scrape and got to coding out my scraper and was able to tell it to retrieve all the necessary data for my program. Setting up the scraper was not as hard I had imagined, considering the scrapeability of the website was quite good. However, I soon realized that writing a CLI that pulled its data from a scraper would be risky since the website would most likely change between the time I finished my project until my review. That would inevitably cause my code to break and then I’d have to adjust my code during t...