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HOLY CRAP THIS IS A GOOD TUTORIAL. Love the setup. Super solid formating.
I added some small formatting things, feel free to make the changes and @Bobliuuu will take a look!
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| title: Create Mastermind game using Python | |||
| author: 3t8 | |||
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Hi! Not sure if I mentioned this before, but is it possible to show your name here?
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Do you mind if we keep just the alias?
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Of course! But may I ask how old are you and where you are from? Just so we know!
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…-game-using-python.mdx Co-authored-by: Sonny Li <[email protected]>
…-game-using-python.mdx Co-authored-by: Sonny Li <[email protected]>
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…-game-using-python.mdx Co-authored-by: Sonny Li <[email protected]>
…-game-using-python.mdx Co-authored-by: Sonny Li <[email protected]>
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Thanks a lot! |
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Alright, I just shared with the team this project, we all freaking love it and suuuper excited about releasing it. 🙌 So great job once again on the draft. One thing though: We are wondering, do you think the modern black and white terminal version is better or a color version is better, in your opinion? Our engineer brought up that we could use color in the terminal with something similar to colorama. But I just don't know if it's too late or not and if it's worth it. My guts is telling me though: If you think adding color will make the project 2x better, then I think we should do it! |
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Thanks for the quick update! As I mentioned in the project, representing colors can be a bit tricky. I'm guessing with something like colorama you could use ANSI color codes on windows too, but I'm not sure that would cover web-based python interpreters. If you think a more classical version of the game with colors instead of numbers would be better, I have no problem implementing that |
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| - A random 4 digit secret code is generated | ||
| - The player will input a 4 digit number trying to guess the secret code | ||
| - The number of digits that are correct and in the right position is returned | ||
| - The number of digits that are correct but in the wrong position is returned |
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Nitpick, but could you add a small note here about what "right position" and "correct" means?
The easiest way would be to use a simple mastermind example to walk through it.
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| while (guess.isnumeric() == False or len(guess) != 4): | ||
| guess = input('Guess the four digit number: ') | ||
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| The `guess` read with `input` is treated as a string, same as the secret code `number`. |
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Isn't number treated as a number here, not a string?
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Yes. Please change guess = 0 to guess = '0'.
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| and one to count the correct digits in the wrong position |
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Move this to the previous line.
"We need a variable ... in the right position and one ... wrong position.
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The two variables can also be combined to one python field.
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| To improve this project you could try to: | ||
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| - Increase the number of digits the user has to guess. With 4 digits the possible permutations are 10000. |
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| - Increase the number of digits the user has to guess. With 4 digits the possible permutations are 10000. | |
| - Increase the number of digits the user has to guess. With 4 digits the possible permutations are 10000, but with more digits, it would be harder for the user to guess the permutation. |
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| title: Create Mastermind Game with Python | |||
| author: 3t8 | |||
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Are you ok with using your real name here?
If so please update your name here
…game-with-python.mdx Co-authored-by: Jerry Zhu <[email protected]>
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…game-with-python.mdx Co-authored-by: Jerry Zhu <[email protected]>
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| - A random 4 digit secret code is generated | ||
| - The player will input a 4 digit number trying to guess the secret code | ||
| - The number of digits that are correct and in the right position is returned | ||
| - The number of digits that are correct but in the wrong position is returned |
| The easiest way to do it is converting the number to a string and justify it to the right with `rjust` by adding `0` until it has `4` digits. | ||
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| number = str(number).rjust(4, '0') |
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Should we rename this number to secret_code and also update all the usage of this variable below, to make it more semantic?
| while (guess.isnumeric() == False or len(guess) != 4): | ||
| guess = input('Guess the four digit number: ') | ||
| ``` | ||
| The `guess` read with `input` is treated as a string, same as the secret code `number`. |
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Yes. Please change guess = 0 to guess = '0'.
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| correct_digit = 0 | ||
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| We will also use a copy of `number` in order to keep track of the digits that have already been matched and the ones that are left unmatched |
| The `guess` variable has not been changed at all, but we **must not** check the digits that have already been matched in the right position. | ||
| That is done by also checking if `guess[i] != number[i]` (or if `unmathced[i] != 'f'`). | ||
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Missing the aforementioned for loop here.
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| ## [#](#-counting-the-number-of-guesses-and-winning) Step 7. Counting the number of guesses and winning | ||
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| The whole code after the `number` generation needs to be inside a |
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Need to finish this sentence with a colon or "white loop as follows:"
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Hi @3t8! Dharma just reviewed it one last time, can you take a look? Also, after further thinking and research, let's do the colors!!! Just because colors is SUCH a big part of Mastermind Let's use |
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Let me know when you finish these and we can merge it! @3t8 |
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take a look at this for inspiration: |
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it doesn't have to be this crazy of course, but colors do add a layer of fun i think |
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Hey @3t8, how's progress on the changes? Please let us know if you need any help! |
Closes issue #17
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