Project: Guess the number

Introduction

We're leaving the turtle drawing module behind now and moving on to coding concepts we need to create games, such as handling user input; if statements to make your code do something based on a condition; and while loops to make your code keep running until a condition isn’t true.

What you will make

A guessing game where the computer picks a number between 1 and 9, and the player has five chances to guess the number.

What you will learn

• Printing text to the screen

• String concatenation

• Getting user input

• If statements and comparison operators

• While loops

What you will need

• A computer or tablet capable of accessing the online interactive Python environment called Trinket. You can create a trinket.io account using your google school account; or

• If you don’t want to create an account you can use the embedded interactive trinkets below to run code and see what happens; or

• You can use a computer that has the Python programme installed.

Let's get started

1. Sign in to your trinket.io account, click on your name and then select ‘New Trinket’ and ‘Python’ from the drop-down menus.

2. Use this link to go to the Code Club online project: projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/cd-beginner-python-sushi

3. Follow each step in the project, type code into your own trinket. You can look at the embedded trinket below for help if you get stuck.