Oh, sometimes we get a student who are lazy and trying to trick us into doing their homework for them. But usually those folks don't show up with anything close to working code!

After your explanation, I am impressed! Your code demonstrates a level of understanding that extremely few 6-day beginners possess. And your question wasn't "how do I do it?", it was "how do I do it better?".

Keep going! You are off to a very fine start!