Throw the Dog a Ball

00:00 Let’s go and send Puppy off to fetch something. I’m going to save and run this code. Invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma? Let me see where that happened. Yes.

00:12 I clearly forgot to close the parentheses on my calls to print() here. All right, got those fixed. Save and run again. Here we are. And then I will have the dog Puppy go and fetch something, so dog.fetch() and I can pass it a thing, so it’ll go fetch a "stick".

00:35 You see that the code waits for half a second, Puppy dashes after the stick, and he waits for half a second and then returns stick to you.

00:43 And as an output I get the string 'stick' in this case. Imagine this would be an object, and you would then continue doing something with it. Maybe the dog goes and fetches it, but buries it under the ground.

00:56 I don’t know. I can now

01:00 throw balls with the dog, and it’s going to run off, get the ball, and return it to me. Great. This is a little idea of how you could continue to work on this Farm model and do lots of other things, but there’s other ideas that you could implement.

01:18 Let’s chat about a couple of possible ideas in the next lesson.