Python Projects for Beginners a ten-Week Bootcamp Approach to Python Programming

Weekly Summary
What a week! We’ve just seen how we can interact with our user and be able to perform branching statements. This will allow us to build projects with logic, which will perform specific code based on information that the program is using. The biggest concepts to remember here are our conditional statements and try/except blocks. It’s important to know the difference between catching an error and an error causing your program to crash. We always want to catch errors when possible to sure up our program. Next week we’ll learn about loops and how we can continuously run blocks of code over and over until we no longer want to.
Challenge Question Solution
If you were to run the code block for the challenge question, you would find that it produces an error. This is because we try to access our “element” variable before it’s declared. If you were to reverse these two lines, the program would work as desired.
Weekly Challenges
To test out your skills, try these challenges:

1. 
   Reversing Numbers: Alter the calculator project so that the order of the numbers doesn’t matter. There are a few ways to get the same result; one way is to ask the user if they’d like to reverse the placement of the numbers.
   
2. 
   Age Group: Ask the user to input their age. Depending on their input, output one of the following groups:
   
   1. 
      Between 0 and 12 = “Kid”
      
   2. 
      Between 13 and 19 = “Teenager”
      
   3. 
      Between 20 and 30 = “Young Adult”
      
   4. 
      Between 31 and 64 = “Adult”
      
   5. 
      65 or above = “Senior”
      
3. 
   Text-Based RPG: This is an open-ended exercise. Create a textbased RPG with a story line. You take user input and give them a couple choices, and depending on what they choose, they can go down a different path. You’ll use several branching statements depending on the length of the story.
   

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