Is this Approach Right?

Question

Here is a program about "Look and Say" Sequence,I tried to write it my way Also it took about 3 hours for me to get it right.Also need an advice about how to approach the problem and how to think about the problem efficiently,My problem is that I got confuse about where to start with as Lots of ideas came into mind And Don't understand's which one to began with.
https://code.sololearn.com/cefSElP3WfBr/?ref=app

Answer 1

Adam McGregor rate my code out of 10.