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In this liveProject, you’ll use Python to create a command-line version of the classic guessing game 20 Questions. In your version of the game, the computer will have up to twenty chances to guess what animal the player is thinking of. You’ll use Jupyter notebooks to code your program and define functions that build a knowledge base in real time. Then, you’ll test and debug your code by playing against the computer.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
book resources
When you start your liveProject, you get full access to the following books for 90 days.
prerequisites
This liveProject is for intermediate-level Python practitioners who are comfortable with the basics of manipulating strings, operating on data structures (such as lists and dictionaries), defining functions, and debugging code. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS
- Basic Python
- Basic pandas
- Operating on strings, files, data structures
- Storing and accessing data in lists and dictionaries
- Control flow and conditional logic
- Installing and importing Python modules
- Running a Python script from the command line
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll build and manage a dataset that is dynamically generated during gameplay with the end-user. The skills you’ll learn throughout this project will be directly applicable to your job as a software developer, analyst or data scientist.
- Using pandas to create and manage a dataset
- Operating on DataFrames
- Getting and sanitizing user input
- Implementing randomness and conditional logic
- Modularizing your code
- Running your code as a command-line script
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- Self-paced
- You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
- Project roadmap
- Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
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- Compare with others
- For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
- book resources
- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
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20 Questions project for free
20 Questions project for free
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