365 DAYS OF CODE - DAY 17

I am starting today with a new attitude, like I stated yesterday. And it kind of feels different and exciting.

I am excited to face the challenges ahead. Hopefully it lasts (my excitement not the challenges to be precise). But is there a way to rid ourselves of challenges?? I do not know. What I know is that it gets easier to solve them. Maybe. Hopefully.

Without further ado, I wish Microsoft word gives word/sentence suggestions by the way (totally unrelated to today’s agenda).

Today, continuing day 12 of the prestigious 100 days of python course on Udemy, I learned how to modify global variables in a local scope (i.e., a function) by calling it in the function (like so: global variable). It is advised to avoid modifying global scope because it makes your code prone to errors :(

If you need to modify a global scope variable with a function, use the return statement instead. Like so:

Code from class:

enemies = 1

def increase_enemies(enemy):
    print(f"enemies inside function: {enemy}")
    return enemy + 1

enemies = increase_enemies(enemies)
print(f"enemies outside function: {enemies}")

global constants should be upper case. It serves as a reminder to not modify it along the line since it is different from the normal naming convection.

My Number Guessing Game Code:

import random

import art



print(art.logo)



print("Welcome to the number guessing game!")

print("I am thinking of a number between 1 and 100")



attempts = 0

number = random.randint(1, 100)

difficulty = input("Choose a difficulty. Type 'easy' or 'hard': ").lower()



def game():

    global attempts

    print(f"You have {attempts} attempts remaining to guess the number.")

    for attempt in range(attempts):

        guess = int(input("Make a guess: "))



        if guess == number:

            print(f"You got it! The answer was {number}")

            break



        else:

            attempts -= 1



            if attempts != 0:

                if guess < number:

                    print("Too low.")

                    print("Guess again")



                else:

                    print("Too high.")

                    print("Guess again")

                print(f"You have {attempts} attempts remaining to guess the number.")



            else:

                print(f"You've run out of guesses. You lose")

                print(f"Pssst, the correct answer is {number}")



if difficulty != "easy":

    attempts = 5

else:

    attempts = 10

game()

 

Let’s not be too hard on ourselves. As long as we keep trying, we are succeeding.

I have actually improved these past few days. Let’s not be too lenient either. We can do this!! Definitely :)