Python Beginner Projects 🐍

Entry-level Python scripts demonstrating core programming fundamentals: input handling, math, strings, and functions. Building blocks for AWS automation and DevOps scripting.

Featured Projects.

Table of Contents

• 1. Tip Calculator
• 2. Rollercoaster Tickets
• 3. Treasure Island
• 4. Heads or Tails
• 5. Rock Paper Scissors
• 6. Password Generator
• 7. Hangman
• 8. Caesar cipher
• 9. Blind auction

1. 📱 Tip Calculator

Interactive tool to split bills with custom tip percentage.

Skills Demonstrated:

• User input (input())
• Type conversion (float(), int())
• F-string formatting
• Rounding (round())

Demo:

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2. 🎢 Rollercoaster Tickets

Nested conditional pricing based on height/age/photo.

Skills Demonstrated:

• Nested if/elif chains
• Multiple conditions (>=, <=)
• String methods (.upper())
• Dynamic billing logic

Demo:

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3. Treasure Island

Interactive text adventure with branching story.

Skills Demonstrated:

• Deep nested if/elif (3 levels)
• Multiline strings (ASCII art)
• String methods (.lower())

Demo:

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4. 🎲 Heads or Tails

50/50 coin flip simulator using random module.

Skills Demonstrated:

• Random integers (random.randint())
• Simple if/else logic
• Single-line conditional execution

Demo:

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5. Rock Paper Scissors

Classic 2-player ASCII art game with input validation and win/loss logic.

Skills Demonstrated:

• ASCII multiline strings
• List indexing (game_images[user_choice])
• Input validation (if user_choice < 0 or > 2)
• Complex conditional logic (win/lose/draw)
• Random computer opponent (random.randint(0, 2))

Demo:

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6. 🔐 Password Generator

Interactive CLI tool generates secure, customizable passwords via random character selection and shuffling.

Skills Demonstrated:

• User input parsing (int(input()))
• Nested loops (range() + random.choice())
• List building (append())
• In-place shuffling (random.shuffle())
• String concatenation ("".join())

Demo:

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7. 🎮 Hangman

Single-player word guessing game with 6 lives, random words, and ASCII stages.

Skills Demonstrated:

• Random word choice (random.choice())
• Blanks display ("_".join())
• Lives counter (lives -= 1)
• Repeated guesses (while "_" in display)
• ASCII stages (stages[lives])

Demo:

So on till either we guess the word or loose the game.

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8. 🔤 Caesar Cipher

Infinite replay text encoder/decoder using single function with negative shift trick.

Skills Demonstrated:

• Single caesar() for encode/decode (shift_amount *= -1)
• Modulo wrapping (shifted_position %= len(alphabet))
• Infinite loop (while should_continue)
• Boolean flag control (should_continue = False)
• Non-alphabet preservation (if letter not in alphabet)

Demo:

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9. Blind auction

Secret bidding game—highest hidden bid wins!

Skills Demonstrated:

• While loops for continuous input.
• Dictionaries ({name: bid})
• Custom functions (find_highest_bidder())
• f-string winner announcement.
• User validation (yes/no continue)

Demo:

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Quick Start

1. Clone: git clone https://github.com/shahtaj2102/python-beginner-projects.git
2. Run: python rollercoaster_ticket.py , python tip_calculator.py , python Treasure_island.py , python Heads_or_tails.py , python rock_paper_scissors.py , python Password_generator.py , python Hangman.py , python caesar_cipher.py , python Blind_auction.py

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Shahtaj Singh Gill – AWS Cloud Engineer, Toronto. Portfolio | LinkedIn