HangmanGame

For the Intro to Python Programming course at CS @ Illinois SAIL 2017.

Wordlist Source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/wordlist

Tutorial Topics

• Print hello world
• Variables
• Types
• Operations
• Casting
• Lists
• Strings
• Sets
• Input
• If, elif, else statements
• For-loops & while-loops
• List comprehension
• Map function & filter function
• Exceptions & try-catch blocks
• Functions
• Modules
• File I/O

Program Structure

Each line of pseudocode will have this structure:

Line of pseudocode [topics covered]

Import string of lowercase letters from "string" module [modules]

Ask for number of attempts, make sure it is positive and less than 26 [input, casting, decomposition, exceptions]
Open words file & select random word [file I/O, lists, modules, scalability (if there is time remaining)]

While there are attempts or letters remaining [while loop]
    Print the current state of game [for loop]
    Ask for next letter, make it lower(), make sure input is a single letter that hasn't been guessed before [input, decomposition, exceptions, sets]
    If letter is in the word [sets]
        Notify user that the letter is in the word [string interpolation]
    Else
        Decrement attempt counter [decrement operator]
        Notify user that the letter is not in the word [string interpolation]

If word is solved
    Notify user of win
Else
    Notify user of loss

Give player the option to try again