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Here goes nothing: Drawing Challenge Prompt Generator

I´m currently learning python and I am still in the very first stages of my journey. Why didn´t I start sooner? Well, I wish I did but I was simply studying something else. Biology. I am currently about to finish my masters in Conservation Biology and I am passionate about (hopefullly) contributing to protecting wildlife, especially in my native South America. The thing is, somewhere along the way, I don´t know exactly where, I realized coding was a skill I wanted to learn to help me with my life´s purpose. So eventually I started with codecademy and got to the point where I had to build my first portfolio project and write a blog post about it. I had to make a program that runs in the terminal. I wanted something that at least I could actually use. So I came up with something that might help me with something else I´m trying to learn: drawing (I can also explain why drawing is important to my purpose but that´s another story). You probably know about how artists use prompt lists (Like inktober, for example) for inspiration and they have to draw something related to the words in the prompt. Well that´s the idea: You have a built-in list of song titles (it could be any word really, but song titles seemed like a good source for inspiration) and the program randomly selects a title and returns it as your prompt for the day. Then it asks you to enter more titles to (temporarily) grow the list and select another prompt. It´s very basic, I know and it´s not quite everything I hoped it would be, but it works (kind of). Anyway, I will still be making improvements on it as I gain knowledge. You´re welcome to try it and suggest any changes you think might be good. Here´s the link to the repo: https://github.com/jimmazaasu/Drawing_challenge_prompt_generator

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