Making the project easier

The programming assignment I wrote for the introductory CS class is currently out for test to a few other course staff. Initial feedback, along with my own concerns, indicates that there's too much work at the beginning. One of the handful of functions for students to implement is very finicky and somewhat long, so much so that I'm inclined to split out parts of it into helper functions. Today I decided to just provide that function in the starter code since there's enough other stuff to work on in the segment. As I continue writing up more detailed specifications I'm finding that the later segments are also a lot of work. They might need to be trimmed back as well.