Python Minigames

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This project is part of the liveProject series Python Minigames

prerequisites: Python basics • object-oriented programming • basic HTML
skills learned: web scraping • error handling • basic encryption • modularizing code • requests • BeautifulSoup4 • debugging • exceptions

Jaya Moore

1 week · 6-8 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE

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In this liveProject, you’ll use Python to build a command-line game that produces a cryptogram to decode. You’ll build a simple web scraper to pull data from a quotation website, then generate an encoded puzzle for the player to decipher. You’ll interact with a web server to create your game, using the Python library BeautifulSoup.

This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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project author

Jaya Moore

Jaya Moore is a developer enablement professional with a specialization in developer education. She has extensive experience serving organizations across the world as a technical writer, web developer, and data scientist. She has been learning and writing about Python for over six years.

prerequisites

The liveProject is for intermediate-level Python practitioners who know the basics of Python syntax, strings and character data, and the fundamental aspects of object-oriented programming. Moreover, you’ll need a basic understanding of how web servers receive and respond to requests for web pages, and how HTML structures content on a webpage. To begin this liveProject you will need to be familiar with the following:

TOOLS

Basic Python
Basic HTML

TECHNIQUES

Operating on strings and character data
Object-oriented programming
Control flow and conditional logic
Installing and importing Python modules
Running a Python script from the command line
Handling errors and debugging code
Working with HTML tags
Conceptual understanding of the Document Object Model (DOM)

you will learn

In this liveProject, you’ll write a script that can scrape data from a website and encode the data with a given cipher. The skills you’ll learn throughout the course of this project will be directly applicable to your job as a web developer, analyst, cryptographer, or data scientist.

Simple encryption and decryption
Web scraping
Error handling
Modularizing code
User input

features

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.
Get Help: While within the liveProject platform, get help from other participants and our expert mentors.
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.