Python Terminal Game Recomendation

Sam Shelly — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 02:38:05 +0000

A little bit of background, I am currently taking a course through Code Academy learning how to code in Python and this is my second free-form project. My first project was making the game 2048 in the Python terminal, which I think you should check out, but that's not the point of this point. My challenge today was to create a program to recommend something based on user input. I picked game recommendations because of my interest in that area. One challenge I ran into in this project was logging data.

I ended up adding 50 games across 10 categories. Other than that there was nothing complicated about this assignment. I choose to recommend players a new game based on a category or game they already like, as well as if they want a new, old, or random game. This involved light user input and sorting a list of games by the year they were made. If you want to check out the project here is the link!

SamZombie / GameRecomendation

This program recomends you a game from a set of 50 based on your favorite genre or game from the list. Created for a coding challenge

Launch gamereccode.py in the terminal

View on GitHub

Making 2048 From Scratch

Sam Shelly — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:52:02 +0000

A little bit of background, I am currently taking a course through Code Academy learning how to code in python and this is my first free form project. Armed with my limited coding knowledge and the task to create something I hatched a plan. Code Academy suggested remaking a game like Blackjack or Tic-Tac-Toe but I wanted to do something different. So I decided to make a game that I have played but never beaten, and what I landed on is 2048. The game is simple enough but even then I ran into a few challenges.

The hardest part to code was pushing the all the numbers in every direction. To do this I programed pushing numbers to the left by appending all non zero numbers than adding zero to maintain 4 numbers in the list. To move to the right I reversed the list before I compacted then after to make it look normal. Movement up and down was a bit more complicated but I achieved this by creating a temporary list with the nth value in every list, pushing it left or right, then decoding it. Anyways here it is.

SamZombie / Terminal-2048-python-project

Terminal-2048-python-project

Code Academy Portfolio Project 1 This is a recreation of 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli for a coding challenge