Tamara teaches herself how to code

My First PyGame!

This time I was more focused on object oriented programming, sadly there’s not that much to show, But I learned soooo much!

I wrote a program that could serve as a basis for a card game! I created classes, for exaple the Card:  I defined that every card has a value and a suit. Then I created decks and told the computer to generate a card deck and shuffle it. I also defined functions like draw card and discard, which should be pretty self explanatory.

As a guidance I first watched Executed Binary’s YouTube video to get a general idea of how I should approach this project. After watching it I got right to coding. I was struggling at fist and used his code as a cheatsheet, but later got the hang of it.

But now that i have coded the fundamentals I should be able to code a card game in the foreseeable future!

Started coding this with a tutorial, but decided to try coding it myself without help. Again, it’s a really bare bone version of tic-tac-toe and the only way to give input is to type a number between 1-9, every number corresponds with a square on the board.

I think i’ve made this idiotproof, so typing anything that isn’t a number between 1-9 won’t break the program completly.

The computer is also able to respond to your moves! It just chooses a free square randomly, thus the difficulty won’t be high.

I don’t remember when I wrote this, but I know that I was bored and didn’t know what to code. This is a surprisingly short program that is able to check if any given number is a prime number in a short time. With my limited knowledge I managed to make this little “algorithm” that checks divisibility up until a certain point, so the program doesn’t unnecessarily check if, say, the number 7191, is divisible by 7190.

My first project was a simple hangman game, turns out such a simple game wasn’t that easy to code! The program first asks you type the word your opponent has to guess, then it checks if it meets all the criteria, i.e., is the word long enough, does it have invalid characters? Then it’s your turn to guess the letter!

The program checks if your input is valid, if you’ve already guessed the letter and if the guessed letter is correct etc. Then it inserts the letter(s) in the right spot and keeps count of how many times you’ve got it wrong. This build is really bare bone, but it does what it’s supposed to be doing! I was really proud of myself after successfully writing my program, since i didn’t use any tutorials to help me build it.

I faced issues when the word had the same letter more than once because the built-in functions had problems dealing with that situation. I got around that thanks to using for-loops.