"""
Felix Muzny
DS 2000
Lecture 5
September 20, 2024

A program to visualize the top 10 salaries in MA 2023 (from a file, with a loop!)
"""
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

FILENAME = "ma_salarytop10.txt"

def main():
    print("lec 5 - ma salaries WITH loop")

    # step 1 - gather data
    with open(FILENAME, "r") as salary_file:
        # memory/accumulator variable
        rank = 1
        for line in salary_file:
            print(line)
            salary = int(line)
            plt.bar(rank, salary, color= "red")
            rank = rank + 1 # the same as rank += 1

    # if we want to make our program ultimately flexible!
    plt.title("top " + str(rank - 1) + " MA salaries 2023")
    plt.xlabel("rank")
    plt.ylabel("total salary")
    plt.show()

main()