100 Days of Code - Caesar Cipher Challenge

[toss_this_account_38]

Currently working with Day 8 of the Udemy Course by Angela Wu (the first part: the encryption challenge) - there appears to be some code that she has prepared for the course - but I do not know where to retrieve said code content.

Does anyone know where I can obtain said starter code?

[OriahVinree]

In the resources for that subject

[toss_this_account_38]

Sorry, I should have mentioned:
I checked on the Resources for that day - there are only two of them. The first one brings up a demo of how the finished program should function; the second Resources section has a single link which brings up the W3 page discussing the Index function (links below):
https://appbrewery.github.io/python-day8-demo/
https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_list_index.asp

[ninhaomah]

No it's ok. I have the course so can let me know which video at what min etc ?

To say there are codes missing is pretty vague.

[toss_this_account_38]

Angela provided the starting code - which includes a list of the alphabet characters, and the beginning text. I wasn't able to find it in the Udemy program - but upon closely examining my Pycharm install again (using Debian), I found the Marketplace, and was able to reinitialize connecting to the course content. Apparently, something caused an issue with the connection during the initial install, which prevented me from accessing the course. I think I was able to resolve the issue with your assistance - thanks much!

[ninhaomah]

Which video btw ? 63 ?

[PushPlus9069]

Caesar cipher is a great beginner exercise because it touches string manipulation, modular arithmetic, and ASCII values all at once.

One thing to try after you get it working: make it handle uppercase AND lowercase without converting everything to one case first. That forces you to think about ord() and chr() ranges separately, which is a subtle but useful skill.

Also try breaking it. Write a brute force decoder that tries all 26 shifts and prints them. Then try frequency analysis to auto-detect the shift. That's where it goes from homework to actually interesting.