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Rock, Paper, Scissors With Python: A Command Line Game (Summary)

Christopher Trudeau
Rock, Paper, Scissors With Python: A Command Line Game Christopher Trudeau 01:05
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Congratulations! You just finished coding a game in Python! You now know how to create rock paper scissors from scratch, and you’re able to expand the number of possible actions in your game with minimal effort.

In this course, you:

  • Coded your own rock paper scissors game
  • Took in user input with input()
  • Played several games in a row using a while loop
  • Cleaned up your code with IntEnum and functions
  • Described more complex rules with a dictionary
  • Learned that lizards poison Spock
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00:00 In the previous lesson, I showed you how to use IntEnum in your code and added a lizard and Spock to your rock paper scissors game. In this lesson, I’ll wrap everything up with a quick summary.

00:13 Writing games is a fun way to get practice writing code. In this course, you implemented a text-based version of rock paper scissors. You asked a user for input and validated it, looped your code to allow repeated plays, added a show_winner() function to determine who won, simplified your show_winner() function by replacing some conditional logic with a data representation stored in a dict, used enumerations to help avoid spelling errors—one more time, s-c-i-s-s-o-r-s. There, I did it that time. And finally, you saw how the right choices for the structure of your code can make future changes simpler to implement and maintain.

00:56 I hope you found value in this course. Thanks for your attention. Prosper and live long… No, wait. That’s not right.

dngrant on Sept. 29, 2021

Outstanding Chris. Thank you and the RP team for putting this together. I’ve never dealt with IntEnums before. I will look for ways to put this into practice.

stephanduesterhoeft on March 29, 2023

Thx Chris. That was fun!

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