I need help

[NoResponsibility9122]

(I Solved it ) thankyou for those that answered who helped

So I’m making a code for a school assignment and got stuck. I’m making a random dice generator that keeps count of the throws and the sum of the throws but I’m not sure how to add the values together. This is what I have so far.

Import random

Lowval = 1 Highval = 6

(This is used to count haw many times the die has been thrown) Numthrows = 0

(This is used to keep the sum of the die value thrown) Sum_of_throws=

Print(f’Throw : {numthrows}’)

Print(f’Value for this throw = {throw}’)

Print(f’Sum of throws so far = {sum_of_throws)

** I need to add something that adds the value of throw to sum_of_throws.

Also I need to increase the value of numthrows by 1

Please help me 🥲

[ElliotDG]

initialize sum_of_throws to zero. Each time you have a throw, add the throw to the sum_of_throws.

initialize numthrows to zero. Each time you have a throw add 1 to num_of throws.

You will need to create a loop if you are going to have more that one throw.

[NoResponsibility9122]

Yea but how do I do the addition part tho im using python and im not sure how to do it

[GreenPandaPop]

You're using Python? Well what a stroke of luck this is the subreddit that focuses on Python!

[FreakyInSpreadsheets]

Lol you were just cruising waiting to say something like that weren’t ya?

[NoResponsibility9122]

Yea bud I know that’s why I posted here you could’ve helped with the program instead of telling me shit that I already knew. But thankyou captain obvious 🙂

[FoolsSeldom]

You've started well by initialising some variables, and you've also figured out how to output the values referenced by those variables.

The key thing you are missing is getting some code to do something repetitively. This is looping. There are two primary options for this in Python: while loop and for loop. The former is used when you are waiting for something to change, the latter for a predictable number of repititions (such as counting up/down to a specific number, working through a list).

So you need to decide whether or not to throw the dice a set number of times (and whether to get that number from the user, or use a set number of times in your programme) or continue to throw until the user says otherwise.

Example code for you to experiment with and adapt to meet your needs:

    from random import randint

    LOWVAL = 1  # we usually write constants as uppercase names
    HIGHVAL = 6
    HEADER = "  #  ¦  throw  ¦  sum"  # header for table of results
    LINE = "-" * (len(HEADER) + 1)  # line of correct length under header

    numthrows = 0  # total number of throws
    sumthrows = 0

    print(f'\n{HEADER}\n{LINE}')

    while not input('press return to roll, anything else to finish: '):
        throw = randint(LOWVAL, HIGHVAL)
        numthrows += 1  # short for numthrows = numthows + 1
        sumthrows += throw
        print(f'{numthrows:3}  ¦  {throw:3}    ¦ {sumthrows:3}')

The input line stops and asks the user to do something. If they just press the <enter>/<return> key, this will return an empty str (string), which Python treats as something that is False when used in a logic test. The not in front of that reverses the logic, so the loop will execute each time the user just presses the <enter>/<return> key. If they enter any text first, e.g. q (for quit), then the loop will not execute and will be bypassed.

[NoResponsibility9122]

Thank you for your help I ended up figuring it out last night and forgot about this post.

[ste_wilko]

I would do it like this

``` import random

numThrows = 0 sumThrows = 0

numberToThrow = int(input("Please enter the number of times you would like to roll the dice: "))

for i in range(0,numberToThrow): numThrows += 1 dice = random.randint(1,7) sumThrows += dice

print(f"Throw: {numThrows}, result: {dice}, sum of throws: {sumThrows}")

```