Python for Absolute Beginners Transcripts
Chapter: Organizing and reusing code with functions
Lecture: 02-intro-to-our-rocks
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It's time for a game and in this chapter
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as well as in the next couple of chapters, we're
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going to focus on a game you probably already know.
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Rock, paper, scissors.
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Here's a little graphic from wikipedia that talks about it
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so, you have a hand symbol, the two fingers up mean scissor
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the flat hand means paper and the fist means rock.
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And they have this relationship that paper beats rock
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rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper and of course
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you can tie.
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Or you can pick one where one of the players wins.
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So we're going to build this game and we're going to actually
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build it over the next couple of chapters
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layer by layer. Starting out really simple
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and then we're going to convert to reusable more clean code
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with functions. Then we're going to apply really interesting
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data structures to make it way more useful and generalized
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as well as simpler and we're going to have it read and
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write files so that it has things like leaderboards
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and other config extensibility things.
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So users can create their own types
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of rock, paper, scissor games and so on.
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It's going to be really, really fun.
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But this is more than just a game.
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Maybe you're familiar with karate kid, here we have Daniel
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and Mr. Miyagi and Daniel's learning to become
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a karate black belt or something, I'm not sure
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if he even gets a belt.
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But He's studying for Mr. Miyagi and
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he wants to learn karate and fighting and all
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Mr. Miyagi asks him to do is, wax his car.
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Wax, on, wax off if you remember that.
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So he does it over and over and it seems like
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what are we doing, isn't this like, this is not what
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I want to be studying.
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I want to be doing a real thing
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I want to be doing amazing stuff, I want to be fighting
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or defending myself or whatever his goals were
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in that movie.
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And here he is just waxing a car. It turns out
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much like the practice he got doing
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wax on, wax off of the car, it taught him sort of
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muscle memory of some of the karate moves.
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Building this game is actually going to dive into
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many, many really important programming concepts.
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Now what you'll learn from this game, well it is a game
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will let you build software for banks, websites
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all sorts of stuff.
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Obviously there's extra details you need to learn
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for those other systems but this is a really
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good foundation that we're going to get
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out of this rock, paper, scissor game.
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So I hope, hopefully you're excited learn it and build it
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and play it because it's going to be allot of fun
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and I think you'll be surprised what we come up with
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in the end.
