What is catbot?

CatBot is a very small Python script made by a beginner programmer as a learning project. It works like a simple chatbot with a cat theme: it asks the user a preset question, reads their typed answer, and replies with a short, fun response chosen from a fixed list of possibilities. If you are not sure what to type, you can press the letter i and CatBot will guide you. The author explains that this was a personal, solo project built while learning two basic programming ideas. The first is using a series of elif statements, a way in Python of checking many possible answers one after another and giving a different reply for each one. The second is reading and cleaning up what a user types, using a method that converts their input to lowercase letters so the matching works more reliably regardless of how they capitalize their answer. The author also mentions adding small explanatory notes inside the project to help other beginners follow along with the code, and says they used tutorials and AI assistance to better understand these concepts while building it. To run CatBot, you need Python 3 installed on your computer. You then run the single script file from a terminal, and it will start asking its preset question and responding to your typed answers. The project was built and tested using Visual Studio Code as the editor. This is a small, first project style repository rather than a polished application, and the README does not describe any features beyond this simple question and answer interaction.