day 054 - person class BMI

054/person_class.py

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+#!python3
+#Quick example script to create a person based class.
+
+class Person(object):
+    def __init__(self, name, age, height, weight, gender, job):
+        self.name = name
+        self.age = age
+        self.height = height
+        self.weight = weight
+        self.gender = gender
+        self.job = job
+
+    #Manual way of displaying job to demo a class function	
+    def get_job(self):
+        return self.job
+
+    #Calculate BMI (Body Mass Index) = weight * height (in metres squared)
+    def bmi(self):
+        return (self.weight / ((self.height / 100) ** 2))
+
+
+#Creating some awesome people using the class
+bob = Person("Bob", 30, 180, 80, "Male", "Professional Awesome Programmer Guy")
+julian = Person("Julian", 30, 170, 70, "Male", "Professional Smack Talker")
+
+
+#Technically could have pulled job info with just .job
+print(bob.name + ": " + bob.get_job())
+print(julian.name + ": " + julian.get_job())
+
+#Calculating BMI using Replacement Field String formatting
+print("{} BMI: {}".format(julian.name, julian.bmi()))

LOG.md

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 | 051 | May 19, 2017 | [Use #Python #requests module on a page behind a login](051) | Wrote a quick script to pull web page data from a page behind a login. In this example I pull my post data from freecycle.org. Will write a detailed post about it this week. |
 | 052 | May 20, 2017 | [Build a user focused REPL with prompt_toolkit (source @amjithr)](052) | Code from PyCon2017 [Awesome Commandline tools session](https://speakerdeck.com/amjith/awesome-commandline-tools) |
 | 053 | May 21, 2017 | [Script to start automating posting to our PyBites FB group](053) | Also 'a' possible solution for challenge 19 of this week |
-| 054 | May 22, 2017 | [TITLE](054) | LEARNING |
+| 054 | May 22, 2017 | [Script to create a person #class and calculate BMI](054) | A simple script to demo basic Python Classes. It calculates the BMI of an individual |
 | 055 | May 23, 2017 | [TITLE](055) | LEARNING |
 | 056 | May 24, 2017 | [TITLE](056) | LEARNING |
 | 057 | May 25, 2017 | [TITLE](057) | LEARNING |