''' Purpose: produce and print the reverse of a user-supplied word
    (using accummulation)
'''


### get word
reply = input( "Enter word: " )

word  = reply.strip() #Just as a reminder, .strip() clears all leading and trailing whitespace from a string!

### get a copy of the word through accumulation

#Accumulation is an important concept in 1112! We ant to build up an answer.
#INITIALIZE an accumulator -- important vocab for the future and for the test!

reverse = ""

#Initialize reverse to an empty string
#Why do we initialize it as an empty string? Because we eant to add to it to build up an answer!
#We want to add more character to thei empty string until we get out final string answer.
#ACCUMULATION IS INITIALIZED OUTSIDE THE FOR LOOP BEFORE THE FOR LOOP!!!!!!!

for ch in word : #ch is arbitrary-- could be anything but make it DESCRIPTIVE and relevant to the task/its function
    #reverse = ch + reverse -- Wrong!!
    print("ch =" , ch)
    reverse = ch + reverse #Order matters!
                        #What we're doing now is we're taking each character in the original sequence
                        #and adding it to the front so apple becomes alppa because it'll add the a then the p
                        #in front of that a then the p after that and so on and so on.



    print(reverse)

### print reverse
print( reverse ) #This is a veriable
#again, the purpose of accumulators is using an empty sting "" and then keep adding to it.
#by saying accumulator = accumulator + (whateverIwaant) through string concatentation
#that way it keeps getting that previous value of accumulator and adding the new string(s)

'''
Class questions:
Strip will take out the extra space: _______victoria_____ (with _ being blank space), strip will take 
out all of the space.
'''