Back to the Future

After that discussion of "errors, their cause and cure", let's get back to our regularly scheduled discussion. The next thing we will need, as I've suggested previously, is a way for the user to enter, modify, and delete information for home inventory items without having to manually create or edit a data file.

Susan thought I had something against data files. I cleared up her confusion with the following discussion.

Susan: What's wrong with data files?.The Home Inventory Project

Steve: Nothing's wrong with them. What's wrong is making the user type everything in using a text editor; instead, we're going to give the user the ability to create the data file with a data entry function designed for that purpose.

Susan: Oh, so ...

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