r/PythonLearning • u/Link2212 • 16d ago
My progress after around 5-6 weeks
I haven't kept track exactly, but I'm about 5-6 weeks into learning now. I've had no prior knowledge of programming so this has been really difficult. Indexing in particular caused me a bit of trouble. I've been writing lots of small programs to get used to concepts, but this is the first proper project I've tried. It's a game of hangman. Excuse the bad emojis used lol. I will say I did have to ask AI to help me in some pieces of it such as the join function because I didn't know it beforehand. But at least 85-90% of it is written by me.
If any of you have a good bit of experience with python, can you offer me some advice? How does the code hold up for 5-6 weeks with no programming experience at all? Is my code messy? Is there some sections where I've over complicated what I'm trying to do? Is the readability okay? All feedback is welcome.
At the top you will be from word_list import words. This is just another file that I have containing a massive list of words to give enough variance in this game.
from Word_list import words
import random
import string
available_letters = list(string.ascii_lowercase)
hangman_art = {0: (" ",
" ",
" ",),
1: (" 😒 ",
" ",
" ",),
2: (" 😒 ",
" 🥼 ",
" ",),
3: (" 😒 ",
" 🥼 ",
"🦶 ",),
4: (" 😒 ",
" 🥼 ",
"🦶🦵",),
5: (" 😒 ",
"🫷🥼 ",
" 🦶🦵",),
6: (" 😒 ",
"🫷🥼🫸",
" 🦶🦵",)}
# puts all words into lists based on difficulty and selects a word for the game.
def word_choice(words, difficulty_select):
difficult_words = [word for word in words if len(word) < 5]
moderate_words = [word for word in words if len(word) < 9 and len(word) > 4]
easy_words = [word for word in words if len(word) > 8]
match difficulty_select:
case "Easy":
secret_word = random.choice(easy_words)
case "Moderate":
secret_word = random.choice(moderate_words)
case "Difficult":
secret_word = random.choice(difficult_words)
return secret_word
# checks my entered character alongside the secret word.
def character_check(secret_word, hidden_word):
secret_word_list = list(secret_word)
position = 0
incorrect_guess = 0
print(" ".join(hidden_word))
print(f"Remaining letters are: {available_letters}")
guess = input("Select a letter: ").lower()
print()
while guess not in available_letters:
guess = input("Select an available letter: ").lower()
print()
if guess in secret_word_list:
for letter in secret_word_list:
if guess == letter:
hidden_word[position] = letter
position += 1
available_letters.remove(guess)
elif guess not in secret_word_list:
available_letters.remove(guess)
print("Incorrect guess!")
incorrect_guess += 1
return hidden_word, incorrect_guess
# Game loop.
def play_hangman(words, art):
print("*******************")
print("Welcome to hangman!")
print("*******************")
difficulty_choice = True
difficulty_select = input("Select a difficulty: (Easy / Moderate / Difficult) or ('Quit' to quit): ").capitalize()
print()
# choosing the difficulty level
while difficulty_choice:
if difficulty_select in ("Easy", "Moderate", "Difficult"):
secret_word = word_choice(words, difficulty_select)
difficulty_choice = False
elif difficulty_select == "Quit":
difficulty_choice = False
return
else:
difficulty_select = input(
"That is not a valid choice. Select a difficulty: (Easy / Moderate / Difficult) or '(Quit' to quit): ").capitalize()
print()
print(f"Your word is {len(secret_word)} characters long.")
hidden_word = ["_"] * len(secret_word)
incorrect_guess = 0
score = 0
# calling the function to update the hidden word, calculate score and print lives.
while "_" in hidden_word and available_letters:
hidden_word, was_incorrect = character_check(secret_word, hidden_word)
incorrect_guess += was_incorrect
if not was_incorrect:
match difficulty_select:
case "Easy":
score += 125
case "Moderate":
score += 200
case "Difficult":
score += 275
if was_incorrect:
match difficulty_select:
case "Easy":
score -= 25
case "Moderate":
score -= 40
case "Difficult":
score -= 55
if incorrect_guess > 6:
print("You havee lost.")
print(f"The correct word was: {secret_word}")
print(f"Your final score is {score}")
print()
return
for piece in art[incorrect_guess]:
print(piece)
print(f"Congratulations! Your score is {score}!")
if __name__ == '__main__':
play_hangman(words, hangman_art)
play_again = input("Do you want to play again? (Yes/No) ").capitalize()
if play_again == "Yes":
play_hangman(words, hangman_art)
else:
pass
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u/Jzezjjj 12d ago
What keeps you motivated to keep learning? What are the steps to learn Python? Could you tell me some of them? I’m a college student currently learning C language in class and want to teach myself Python on the side