Sharing Computer Science Project #1 - Coin Flip looking for feedback

@patrickd314 wrote:

@corotox, great work!! It works fine, and doesn’t necessarily require any changes.

There are so many ways to code this sort of thing. A few ideas:

Staying more or less with your structure, but with fewer if chains or try-except:

play_again = "y"
while play_again != "n":
    if not play_again in 'yn':
            play_again = input("Play another? (y/n)")
            continue
    guess = input("Please press h for Heads or t for Tails: ")
    if not guess in "ht":
        print ("please enter a valid option")
        continue
    guess = 1 if guess == 'h' else 2

    print(guess)
    # play game   here

    play_again = input("Play another? (y/n)")
        
print("Good-bye!")

But my favorite structure is to maintain all of the bookkeeping and as much of the interaction as possible in a play() function, possibly like this:

def play(coin_flip_success = 0, coin_flip_total = 0, dice_success = 0, dice_total = 0):
    
    while True:        
        game = input("Welcome to the game lobby, Press 1 to play Coin Flip, Press 2 to Play Dice, or press 3 to exit: ")
        if not game in '123':
            print ("Please enter a valid option")
            continue
        game = int(game)
        if game == 1:
            augment = coinflip()
            coin_flip_success += augment[0]
            coin_flip_total += augment[1]
            continue
        if game == 2:
            augment = dice()
            dice_success += augment[0]
            dice_total += augment[1]
            continue
    print("Thanks for Playing.\n Your coin_flip record was {} wins out of {} tries.\nYour dice record was {} wins out of {} tries.".
          format(coin_flip_success, coin_flip_total, dice_success, dice_total))

play()

For this to work, you need to modify the two other functions to return success_count, game_count

This takes care of wins and losses. It would take some more extensive modification to incorporate all of the interaction and dialog in this function, but I think thatit gives good encapsulation.

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