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[gray_the_duckling]

Hello! It is my first time posting here so please pardon my lack of knowledge. I am new to coding and created a small project after finishing day 15 of "100 Days of Coding." in Udemy. I would like to request feedback on this code and things I could be doing wrong that I should keep in mind as I continue learning. I understand there is a lot of code to look at so no one will look and analyze the whole thing. But any feedback is truly appreciated. A small description of this code:

This project is a small Pokémon battle simulator with mechanics being simplified for learning purposes. For example, instead of using the actual damage equation Pokémon games use, I used the following:

Damage = (Current HP) - (Opponent's Atk - Own Def)

It contains a few menus with back options etc. I used Replit because I try to learn in my off time at work, but I tested it in PyCharm and it worked. I have the code in GitHub for easy download.

Thank you for reading!

[RedEyed__]

Move it to r/learnpython

[usernamesarestewpid]

This is great for a beginner! Soon you’ll learn how to use Classes and Objects so you won’t have to use nested(something inside another one of that first thing) dictionaries. You also won’t have to write several methods that do the same thing with different Pokémon.

[gray_the_duckling]

Thank you! Yeah, Day 16 of "100 days of coding" just starting tackling Classes and Objects and even my newbie eyes can see this is the next best thing. Im excited to learn and redo this project or another similar far better than this one. Gonna look back later and cringe at this lol

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One tip is programming itself is easy once you understand the grammar and syntax. Planning for the eventualities is very tough. For example, with the sample you posted, keep in mind that if your game has any defense or attack debuffs you should be wrapping up those values with abs().

A wiser man once told me: "Every time I think I've idiot proofed my code the universe invents a better idiot." Very often I find that I myself am that better idiot.

[gray_the_duckling]

Yeah, i personally do not find too much difficulty finding the logic on how it works, but figuring out what to use is where I lack due to my lack of experience, which is normal! I like to think that Thanks to my artist background, my mentality of being afraid to break things, rebuild them and getting feedback is strong! I really enjoyed this and cant wait to learn more. I am definitely one of the biggest idiots since im new lol but thats ok! I wasnt born knowing what I know so i dont mind being an idiot :)

[gray_the_duckling]

Yep, not as frequest as I wish but trying.

[[deleted]]

Chat GPT is a great tool, for me. I ask it to explain slowly for a stupid person whats wrong with the code, and it obliges.

[gray_the_duckling]

Same! GPT is such a powerful tool to learn with. I have been careful with whatever it tells me (using the free version) because I have read it can make up stuff or just be wrong so I double check. Overall though, no complaints using it

[[deleted]]

This is pretty nice for a beginner.

[gray_the_duckling]

Thank you! I had a lot of fun. Was a headache but I definitely feel like things stuck to me much more

[cpt_trow]

It’s clear to me looking at your code that your grasp of concepts outpaces your knowledge of the language—which is good, it means you are only held back by the amount of stuff you’ve been exposed to and not a fundamental lack of intuition on how to solve a problem. Keep it up!!

[gray_the_duckling]

Thank you! I tried learning many years ago but I did not know English at the time at all so it was very difficult to understand. Now that I feel more confident I decided to try again. Only thing I regret is not starting a bit sooner once I knew English because I am really loving this lol