1 00:00:00,070 --> 00:00:03,969 Hey! Well done for getting to the final step of the hangman project. 2 00:00:04,450 --> 00:00:05,860 Now in step five, 3 00:00:05,890 --> 00:00:10,210 we're going to complete the project by improving the user experience of our 4 00:00:10,210 --> 00:00:14,440 game. Pretty much up until now, we've already got the game functioning, 5 00:00:14,770 --> 00:00:19,180 but we were working with just three words, right? Ardvark, baboon, 6 00:00:19,420 --> 00:00:21,610 and camel. And at some point, 7 00:00:21,610 --> 00:00:24,970 the game gets pretty tiring when you're only guessing these three words. 8 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:25,990 And in fact, 9 00:00:25,990 --> 00:00:29,590 the words were chosen so that if you see seven characters and you know 10 00:00:29,590 --> 00:00:30,423 it's ardvark, 11 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:35,520 six is baboon, five is camel to make it easier for you to debug the code as 12 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,820 you're creating it. And very often when we're writing code, it really, 13 00:00:39,820 --> 00:00:43,060 really important to help yourself when you're creating the code. 14 00:00:43,330 --> 00:00:47,440 And only once you've got all the logic down and everything's working as expected 15 00:00:47,710 --> 00:00:50,560 then to actually add the full functionality. 16 00:00:51,370 --> 00:00:54,040 So inside this step five starting code, 17 00:00:54,310 --> 00:00:58,480 if you take a look at the files over here, you'll notice two extra files. 18 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,050 One is hangman_art.py, 19 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:07,440 and here I've moved the hangman stages and all the drawings as well as a logo in 20 00:01:09,190 --> 00:01:12,760 ASCII art. So when we actually launch our game this time, 21 00:01:13,180 --> 00:01:17,770 then we're going to get the high man logo printed out like this at the beginning 22 00:01:17,770 --> 00:01:18,603 of the game. 23 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,870 Now the second file here it is hangman_words.py. 24 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:26,710 And this word list now expands on what we had before. 25 00:01:27,070 --> 00:01:31,690 And it's now a huge list of words, sorted alphabetically 26 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:37,080 which we're going to draw upon and replace this previous very simple word list. 27 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,310 The first to-do is to update the word list 28 00:01:42,310 --> 00:01:46,540 to use the one from here instead of this one. 29 00:01:46,540 --> 00:01:51,100 So deleting this line and replacing it with that. And to do this, 30 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:53,530 you might have to look up on previous lessons where 31 00:01:53,530 --> 00:01:58,530 we talked about how to use modules in Python and how to import different files. 32 00:01:59,590 --> 00:02:01,390 Now, if you get stuck on how to do that, 33 00:02:01,630 --> 00:02:03,640 take a look inside the course resources 34 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,259 and there's hints that take you towards documentation on how to do this. 35 00:02:09,370 --> 00:02:13,090 Now, once you've tackled to-do number one, scroll all the way down to find 36 00:02:13,090 --> 00:02:17,470 to-do number two, where we're going to import the stages from hangman_art.py 37 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,160 and this is the same thing using modules and import. To-do 38 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,530 number three is to import the logo. 39 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,440 So one, two, three are all to do with modules and import. 40 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,050 And then once you get to to-do number four, 41 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:33,310 we're basically going to improve the user experience to let the user know that 42 00:02:33,310 --> 00:02:36,400 they've entered a letter that they've already guessed before. 43 00:02:36,910 --> 00:02:40,480 And when that happens, we're going to print the letter and just let them know. 44 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:42,100 You don't have to punish them and 45 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,640 you don't have to take away a life and you don't have to restart the game. 46 00:02:45,730 --> 00:02:48,520 It's just the gentle nudge and let them know that they've really guessed that 47 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,520 letter. Now on to-do number five and the final to-do, we're going to let the user 48 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,610 know if the letter that they guessed is not in the chosen word. 49 00:02:58,030 --> 00:02:58,810 So in this case, 50 00:02:58,810 --> 00:03:02,560 we're going print out the letter that they guessed and let them know that it's 51 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:03,130 not in the word, 52 00:03:03,130 --> 00:03:07,240 just a little bit of feedback to make the game a little bit easier on the user. 53 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:09,790 So once you've done all of that, 54 00:03:10,090 --> 00:03:13,930 then you should end up with a game that's like this. So, 55 00:03:13,930 --> 00:03:16,690 because there's so many words, I think it's really, 56 00:03:16,690 --> 00:03:20,230 really important that you actually have this line of testing code to tell you 57 00:03:20,230 --> 00:03:21,580 what the solution actually is 58 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,990 so you can test all parts of your game because you know what the word actually 59 00:03:25,990 --> 00:03:30,130 should be. So let's guess a letter that's not in that word. 60 00:03:30,220 --> 00:03:34,630 Let's try a, and you can see the game tells us "You guessed the letter a, 61 00:03:34,990 --> 00:03:37,150 that's not in the word. You lose a life." 62 00:03:37,570 --> 00:03:41,890 And we end up with the head already drawn in the hangman. 63 00:03:42,250 --> 00:03:46,360 So now let's guess a different letter. Let's guess a t. 64 00:03:46,990 --> 00:03:51,430 Then you can see that works as expected. But what if we try guessing T again? 65 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,690 Well, then it tells us you've already guessed t and it shows us the blanks 66 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,530 including the t. Now if they guess a letter 67 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,240 that's actually not in the word, so say a, well, in this case, 68 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,020 they're gonna lose a life because it's actually not in the word and we're going 69 00:04:08,020 --> 00:04:09,370 to take away a life. 70 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:15,250 So have a play around with the end version of the game. And as always, 71 00:04:15,310 --> 00:04:19,120 all the links are in the course resources. And once you're ready, 72 00:04:19,209 --> 00:04:22,480 then go ahead and fork the starting file and give this a go.