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In this liveProject, you’ll build a two-player version of the card game Slap that can be played from the command line. To code this game, you’ll use algorithms, object-oriented programming concepts, and event listeners. You’ll gain hands-on experience importing modules, creating classes, defining methods, and using other principles of object-oriented programming.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
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When you start your liveProject, you get full access to the following books for 90 days.
prerequisites
The liveProject is for intermediate-level Python practitioners who are familiar with the basics of Python syntax; strings and character data; object-oriented programming; error handling and debugging; control flow; and basic software design. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be comfortable with the following:
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- Basic Python
- Operating on strings, files, data structures
- 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
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll write a simple command-line game that will allow two players to simulate actions using keypresses. The skills you’ll learn throughout this project will be directly applicable to your job as a software developer.
- Algorithmic design
- Pseudocode
- Event listening
- User input
- Assertions
- Exceptions
- Modularizing code
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