due: Tuesday, April 9, 8pm
Review this week's lecture notes.
Experiment with text-based interactivity on the command line using Python in VS Code by creating a number guessing game.
Start a new code file. Your code should pick a random number
in some range. Add import random as the first
line of your program and use random.randint() to
generate a random number. That takes two arguments: the low
and high of the range. Probably 1 and 10 would work well? But
up to you.
Ask the user for their name using the input()
command. Specify a prompt so the user knows what they are
entering.
Now ask the user to guess a number in the range you are
using. Again use the input() command and a prompt
so the user knows what they are entering.
Now check if the number you've picked and the number the user
has entered are the same. Remember, as we talked about in
class, the input() command generates text, but
the random value you've picked is a number. See this snippet
of interactive Python code:
>>> num = 6
>>> guess = input("Type a number: ")
Type a number: 6
>>> num
6
>>> guess
'6'
>>> num == guess
False
The solution here is to convert the user's guess to a number
as well using the int() command.
If the user has guessed correctly, print a congratulations message using their name. Otherwise, let them know they guessed wrong.
This only works once. Improve on this by putting the user
guess and the check for correctness inside
a while loop so that the user can guess many
times. You can use a looping variable so that the user
only gets a fixed number of guesses, or you can use a
different stopping condition so that the user keeps
guessing until they get it right. (Hint: while
number != guess:)
Lastly, can you modify your code so that the user actually gets a bit more information about how to guess better? Insted of checking for equality, check if the user guess is higher or lower than the number, and inform the user accordingly.
Create a word definition look up. Create a dictionary with a few words and their definitions. Create a loop that prompts the user to enter a word. If that word is in your dictionary, display its definition to the user.
Add a keyword (like "exit") to allow the user to exit.
As an extra step, if the word is not yet in the dictionary, prompt the user for a definition, and then add that word and definition to the dictionary.