Project: Hangman

In groups of three or four, grab a whiteboard and come up with pseudocode for hangman.

Setup and workflow

1. Fork and add collaborators

• One group member must Fork my original repository.
• That group member will go into the newly forked repo, in Settings -> Collaborators and teams, add your group members' GitHub usernames or associated email addresses. This will allow everyone to freely make changes on that forked repo.

2. Create a feature branch

Create a branch whose name is based on what game feature you will be working on. For example, if you are responsible for the code that checks if a guess is correct, call the branch guess-checking (or something). Every separate feature of the code must be in its own branch and have its own pull request.

3. Code!

Write your code in the appropriate branch. You will want to verify that your particular code works by coming up with test cases.

4. Submit pull request

When you have verified that your code works, submit a pull request. Note: make sure you are on YOUR fork, not my original repo. At the top of the repo should have your-user-name/project-hangman. Your username!

• In your repo, go into the Pull requests tab.
• Click the green New pull request button. PAY ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING STEPS
• It will automatically select my original repository as the "base fork", which is good! However, the "base" needs to be the class you are in (grade-11b, grade-11c, or grade-10).
• Wrte a nice message including your group members and what the pull request is for (i.e., checking if a letter is in a word).

Syncing your Fork

There will be times when your Fork (copy of my repo) will be out of date. There is an elegant CLI way ot do this. On GitHub.com, we need to do a reverse pull request.

• Go to the original repo,
• Click the Pull Requests tab
• Click the New Pull Request button
• Click the link "you can also Compare across forks".
• The right side should be the original ICS3U/project-hangman with the branch grade-##x. (The branch for your specific class) This will be the class's official branch that will be more up-to-date than your fork.
• On the left side you will select your repo. You can select the master branch to pull the changes into.
• Confirm that you are (reading from left to right) taking the grade-##x brancho of my repo and putting the changes (check the arrow) into the master branch of your repo.
• Click the Create pull request button. Then again.
• You will see the created pull request saying <your username> wants to merge 2 commits into <you>:master from ICS3U-Gallo:grade-##x. Confirm that this is the case.
• Click Merge pull request

Need to learn

if, elif, else

This is explained in Chapter 4 of Head First: Learn to Code, or you can check out Snakify.org.

in

Learn about using python's in keyword to check if something is in some iterable/collection. Check out this repl.it

Functions

We will be breaking apart our game features with functions. Check out Snakify.org - Functions. Essentially a function takes arguments(input), does some processing, then returns a result(output).

Try this in repl.it

def add(a, b):      # input
    total = a + b   # processing
    return total    # output
  
print(add(4, 6))  # you get 10

Input: Two numbers, a and b.

Processing: Adding the two numbers

Output: Returns the sum

Strings

Checkout Snakify - Strings. You will need to be aware of what you can do with strings.