Summary

• A blind auction program where participants privately submit their maximum bids
• Uses dictionaries to store bidder names (keys) and bid amounts (values)
• Includes screen clearing functionality between bids to maintain privacy
• Program flow: display logo → collect bids → check for more bidders → determine winner
• Winner is determined by finding the highest bid amount in the dictionary
• Demonstrates practical application of Python dictionaries, loops, and function creation

Resources

Blind Auction Flow Chart

Notes\ Code

Time for the unit project, which is to build a silent auction. Here is our task list:

1. Ask the user for input
2. Save data into dictionary {name: price}
3. Whether if new bids need to be added
4. Compare bids in dictionary

We are also told:

Clearing the Output

There are several ways of clearing the output. The easiest is to simply print "\n" many times so that the output scrolls down many lines.