Work through the following exercises of the book Learn Python the hard way by Zed Shaw (book is best read online):
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- Exercise 29
- Exercise 30
Tips:
- You should run these exercises non-interactively (i.e. as a Python program)! To run a Python
program, open the environment using the terminal, navigate to the folder where your
FILENAME.pyfile is located (which you have created and edited using a text editor like Visual Studio Code) and execute it using the commandpython FILENAME.py(replacing 'FILENAME' with the actual name of the file). - Note that in all of these exercises, the author gives you the code to run. Rather than copy pasting this code onto your text editor, the author and I strongly encourage you to type the program yourself in order to get practice writing Python code.
- If you're new to Python (and perhaps coding in general), try to do as many exercises as you can (given your time availability). There's quite a few exercises on the list above but, like learning a new spoken language, significant practice is required to develop a strong foundation. Otherwise, if you already have prior experience with Python, then you may already be familiar with most of these concepts (if so please feel free to skip).
- Each exercise has a "Study drills" section which I also recommend going through if you've got time.
Implement the "Number guessing game" program specified in Chapter 8 of A Beginner Guide to Python 3 Programming by John Hunt, and do the exercise specified in Section 8.7:
Add the following additional features to the game:
- Provide a cheat mode, for example if the user enters −1 print out the number they need to guess and then loop again. This does not count as one of their goes.
- If their guess is within 1 of the actual number tell the player this.
- At the end of the game, before printing 'Game Over', modify your program so that it asks the user if they want to play again; if they say yes then restart the whole thing.