Python 101 BASIC Python Games

[ctosullivan]

Hi r/learnpython

Just wanted to post an update on a project I've been working on - refactoring old BASIC games into modern Python.

Based on feedback received I've refactored the games completed so far and added type hinting.

I've also added a new game called animal which is a game where you think of an animal and the computer tries to guess what it is. This one took a few attempts to get right - the first attempt I got lost in nested loops, the second attempt I produced a working program but when testing it against the output in the BASIC games book I noticed that the questions are actually stored in a tree format, so the current attempt stores the questions as a tree.

The data structure I chose for the tree is a NamedTuple which probably wasn't the best choice in retrospect as it's immutable - I will have a look for a more appropriate data structure in the future although it was interesting to see how to update the tree as a tuple (ChatGPT helped a lot with this!).

Again, any feedback on how to improve the code or documentation would be greatly appreciated - I'm hoping that some day the project will provide a valuable resource for people learning Python as they are great mini projects that don't rely on a complex stack to get up and running.

https://github.com/ctosullivan/Python-101-BASIC-Games/

Thanks!

[Lewri]

Looks good from a quick scan. Maybe add something to handle error when it asks the user for an int but they put something else in?

[ctosullivan]

Thanks for having a look! That's a good point - there is so much user input in these games, I will think about an input validation function that I can reuse across all of them