Question

In this module you learned about arrays. You also began learning about implementing arrays and how they can help organize the data in a program.

The magic ball eight was created in the 50's and was produced by mattel. Eight Ball is a toy and is just a game. The magic 8 ball answers your yes/no questions. You will be creating a version of the Magic 8 Ball game. You can use whats inside the attached file to build your array of sayings or use your own.

• You will need put the sayings into an array(No Files at this point).
• The game should allow the the player to ask/type in a question.
• One of the sayings should be randomly picked from the array and displayed to the player(Hint: use random.choice - see link).
• Write the pseudocode and Flowchart for a program that simulates the Magic eight ball game.
• Make a working version of this program in Python.

Complete the flowchart and pseudocode using draw.io. Include your pseudocode by adding a “square shape” next to your flowchart and populating it with your pseudocode for the program. Export your work in PDF format and upload it to the Blackboard assignment area by clicking on the Browse My Computer button below the text editor.

Complete the Python code using IDLE. Upload your .py file to the Blackboard assignment area by clicking on the Browse My Computer button below the text editor.

This assignment is worth 20 points and will be evaluated using the objectives of the assignment listed.

EightBData.txt

"As I see it, yes"
"It is certain"
"Most likely"
"Outlook good"
"Without a doubt" 
"Yes - definitely"
"You may rely on it"
"Reply hazy, try again"
"Ask again later"
"Better not tell you now"
"Cannot predict now"
"Concentrate and ask again"
"Don't count on it"
"My reply is no"
"My sources say no"
"Outlook not so good"
"Very doubtful"
"Do I Look Like I Care?"
"Yeah, Right"
"Ask Again Later"
"DUH!"

Answer 1

In order to answer this you need to know the following in python:

• How make an array?

In python we create an array by arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. arr is the name of the array chosen by the user and it stores the values 1 to 5. The values need to be comma separated and can be accessed by the using the index after the array name( arr[2] stores the value 3, arr[0] stores the value 1)

• How to take input from user?

To take an input from the user we choose a name for the variable which would store the input and then use the input() function to store it.

name_of_input_variable = input("Prompt user for input.")

• random.choice() function

To use the random.choice() function we first have to import the random library which contains the function. To import the random library into python we use,

import random

We can then use the random.choice() function which would take as input the any array and return a random choice from the values stored in the array. We need to use a variable to store the value returned by the random.choice() function.

value_returned = random.choice(name_of_array)

• print() function

The print() function is used to print some value to the console. We can print variables which store some value.

a=3

print(a)   

print(a) will print the value 3. If we want to print the alphabet a we put it withing double quotes.

print("a")

Flowchart

Python Code

array = ["As I see it, yes", "It is certain", "Most likely", "Outlook good", "Without a doubt", "Yes - definitely", "You may rely on it", "Reply hazy, try again", "Ask again later", "Better not tell you now", "Cannot predict now", "Concentrate and ask again", "Don't count on it", "My reply is no", "My sources say no", "Outlook not so good", "Very doubtful", "Do I Look Like I Care?", "Yeah, Right", "Ask Again Later", "DUH!" ]

question = input("Enter your question: ")

import random

answer = random.choice(array)

print(answer)

Note: Ususally the import random(or any import) are done at the beginning of the file to make things look neat and clean. However here for the sake of understanding I put it right before the random.choice() is used.

Hope this may help you

Thank you ??