What programming an anagram game will teach you
On your journey to becoming a great Python programmer, you need to dive into projects that match your current level, like the anagram game.
An anagram game will teach you the following.
- String manipulation. An anagram game involves manipulating strings to create new words or phrases from the letters of a given word or phrase. As such, you will gain experience with string manipulation techniques such as slicing, concatenation, and sorting.
- Input and output. The game will require the ability to accept user input (i.e., the word or phrase to be scrambled) and output the resulting anagrams to the user. This will require the use of Python
input()function and theprint()function. - Looping The game will need to iterate to prompt the user for guesses until correct.
- Data structures. An efficient anagram game will require storing the dictionary of words in a data structure such as a list or a dictionary for quick lookups. You will learn how to use data structures in Python to optimize the game’s performance.
- Randomness. To make the game fun you need some randomness. This will teach you how to use randomness both to select a random word and to create a random anagram.
Project Description
What is an Anagram?
An anagram of a word is another word obtained by shuffling its letters.
Example
race and care are anagrams of each other.
What to do to implement an anagram game in Python
Create a program that will show the anagram of any word the user input. The user should guess it.
To simplify it a bit, we will make a scramble of the word. Hence, the anagram will most likely not be a correct word.
Step 0 Get some words
To keep it simple we will only use a short list of words.
This way we also have a chance to guess the anagrams.
words = [
'atrocity',
'fanatical',
'pensive',
'respite',
'discordant',
'eloquent',
'encompass',
'imperceptible',
'insuperable',
'stealthily',
'impassive',
'preoccupied'
]
These are the words we will use to create anagrams.
Step 1 Get a random word
We can use random to get a random word from the list.
import random
word = random.choice(words)
Now word contains a random word from the list of words.
Step 2 Shuffle the characters
This will not generate a true anagram, but shuffle the characters of the word to use.
letters = list(word)
random.shuffle(letters)
anagram = ''.join(letters)
Now we have the anagram.
Step 3 The game
To create the game we need a loop to keep querying the player.
while True:
print(anagram)
guess = input()
if guess == word:
print('correct')
break
print('incorrect')
Now that is powerful.
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