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I started this blog having written about 10 small programs in Python and getting most of them to work - 90 pages into my first python book.

My goal is to code my own indie video games.

I'm studying python and unity.

I'll talk about things I did wrong and what I learned. Hopefully I can chart my progression on this blog.

For more of my stuff check out my website: http://imagineermike.com

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I wrote my first program (not including the false start last time I attempted programming) in Python... and it works! after a few bug fixes it's actually quite small and some would think insignificant.
But I'm getting used to the syntax and form of the language.
 
print ("hello")
print ("nwhat are your 2 favourite foods of all time?")
food1 = input ("nt1.")
food2 = input ("nt2.")
 
print ("I have made ",food2+food1," for you!")
 
input ("press a key to exit and enjoy your meal :)")

tip15 = 0
tip20 = 0
price = input ("how much did your meal cost?")
tip15 = int (price) * .15
tip20 = int (price) * .2
print ("A 20% tip would be ",tip20," and a 15% tip would be",tip15)
input ()

I wrote a tipper program for an exercise.
It's a simple program and it took 20mins to write including several bug fixes,
where I had to go back to looking through the textbook and a few glances at my first program,
before I got it running properly. I made the usual noob mistakes - since I've tackled many different languages, I had to figure out if I needed to declare variables.
I also got the variable on the wrong side of the equals sign, then I forgot to include commas in my print statement for the variables. I also forgot to state that the variable was an integer. Finally, I forgot to use brackets and then incorrectly included the calculation inside the brackets.
Eventually, I figured all of this out and came up with the above seemingly simple program.
And it works!

I'm still not using comments, but I'll fix that when I start writing longer programs.

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carPrice = input ("what is the base price of the car?")

tax = int (carPrice) * .125
insurance = 250
totalcarPrice = int (carPrice) + int (insurance) + int (tax)

print ("total cost of your car including: insurance $",insurance,",")
print ("and tax: $",tax," comes to $",totalcarPrice)
input ()

 
This is a program that figures out all your extra costs, when buying a car.
The only mistake I still need to figure out, is what the escape clause is for avoiding having a space at the end of a statement inside a print function.
 
It works fine, the user enters the base cost for the car.
Program calculates the tax and adds a previously decided insurance cost.

Then the program provides the user with both the individual costs, and the total all-inclusive price of the car.

EDIT:
After some research not in-book, it turns out that you can avoid the white spaces in between statements by using the function sep = "", which should be treated as a variable - so not inside the quotation marks of the print function, rather, naked inside the brackets.

So the final program now looks like this:

carPrice = input ("what is the base price of the car?")

tax = int (carPrice) * .125
insurance = 250
totalcarPrice = int (carPrice) + int (insurance) + int (tax)

print ("total cost of your car including: insurance $",insurance,",", sep = "")
print ("and tax: $",tax," comes to $",totalcarPrice, sep = "")

 
input ()

So it took one day to write and bug fix.

Then another day to go through guesswork and figuring it out - to get the program to work.

I haven't got up to while loops in the book, so it took a while - a few errors before I got it working.

And I certainly haven't got as far as def methods, so using them was difficult and problematic. But I wanted my program to be complete with an exit option.

 

import random
    
def end_game():
    end_message = ("game over")
    print (end_message)
    
def game():
    againPlay = "y"
    while againPlay == "y":
        nmCookie = random.randrange(5)   
        begin = input ("cookie time, open your fortune cookie")
        if nmCookie < 1:
            print ("you are going to die someday")
            againPlay = input ("Still hungry")
        elif nmCookie == 1:
            print ("you just ate a cookie")
            againPlay = input ("Still hungry")
        elif nmCookie == 2:
            print ("you are going to eat another cookie")
            againPlay = input ("Still hungry")
        elif nmCookie == 3:
            print ("you like cookies")
            againPlay = input ("Still hungry")
        elif nmCookie == 4:
            print ("you will have a gargantuan legacy")
            againPlay = input ("Still hungry")
        else: end_game()


game ()
end_game ()
 

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