Using and Mastering Cookiecutter Transcripts
Chapter: Programmatic Cookiecutter: Using the API
Lecture: Introducing the game maker
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For this programmatic Cookiecutter demo throuhgout this chapter,
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we're going to try to do something fun here, I am going to create an application called "game_maker",
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and this "game_maker" can make three types of games,
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it can make pong, it can make Tic-tac-toe, it can make Hi-Lo,
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guess the number, it's too high, too low, that game.
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So what we're going to do is we are going to start with the template,
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and we are going to write a program
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that wraps up the project creation and of course,
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leverages Cookicutter in the internals to do so,
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but it's going to have a custom experience, for the user, okay.
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Now, first thing we want to do is I want to start with the template,
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I am going to just paste that in here, and it's called
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"cookiecutter-use-api", not a super creative name,
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but that is what I am calling it.
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Now, notice over here in the template this is a cookiecutter thing,
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we have a hook we have a post generation hook,
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we have a name, we have three games,
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we have Hi-Lo, we have pong, we have a readme
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that tells you what kind of game you've created, things like that,
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really, it's just a demo but you know, people can play the game if they want.
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Right, so the idea is we are going to have our game maker,
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and we are going to have this thing here,
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which I am going to need the path to in just a moment,
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and, we are going to basically ask the necessary questions
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that would otherwise be asked here, by Cookiecutter itself
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and we're going to use that to create the project,
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but before we do, let's just see what would happen
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if I ran this directly, so if I say cookiecutter and I give it the whole URL there,
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it's going to run, it says what is the name of my game,
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okay my_game, my name, I am going to pick let's say hilo,
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boom, great, so that was kind of an okay experience,
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it didn't really tell me what kind of game it was going to be
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or it didn't explain a lot about what Cookiecutter use APIs about,
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but technically, if I look here I do have a game,
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and I can even go into my game maybe I should have put that in source,
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huh, I'll move, actually no, I want it right here, so I can come down here,
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I could even play my game, if you want, so that's pretty cool,
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hey, my name is Michael, 3, 50, too low, 75 wow
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how was that for some luck awesome,
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so we played the game we created, but we can do better
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if we wrap this API and just use this as the kernel to create the game itself.
