Just managed to complete the Local Dev Env final challenge...

The thing took me like 3 hours!! I'm pretty stoked that I got it though.

TBH, I found the todo's in the code a bit confusing at first, I wasn't sure if I was meant to use the 'story' String provided initially, or prompt for one.. obviously we needed to, but I wasn't sure how much I could edit the code at first until I just started tweaking things until it matched the requirements.

Some observations - I still don't really understand how IOException works - I can see why its required for importing files, but I was forced to throw it on the methods I created to prompt for the story String. At first I tried to do this in the prompter constructor but then I needed to throw the IOException from the main method which both seems messy, and caused an error on the test script. I don't really understand why its required in the class/method that calls the method which uses it.

(I got around this by prompting the user in a setter method for the story, then fed the getter for that in to the template constructor.)

When I made a try/catch pair, I had it print "ERROR" before exiting, but when I entered an integer for the story it just exited without printing anything. It compiles and runs fine, but it doesn't print "ERROR!" as expected on an illegal input:

       try {
            prompt.setMyStory();   //this calls readLine() and takes console input (String)
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println("ERROR!");
            System.exit(0);
        }

When I run it:

<ul> <li>Please enter your story: </li> <li>1234</li> <li>1234</li> <li></li> <li>Process finished with exit code 0</li> </ul>

If anyone can shine some light on this I would appreciate it.

It also takes me an insanely long time to follow code around different classes/methods.. does this improve over time?

Thanks!

Nick