CSCI 107 Assignment 9

• Due Date: Monday, December 5th no later than 11:59 p.m.
• Partner Information: You may complete this assignment individually or with exactly one classmate.
• Submission Instructions (working alone): Upload your solution, renamed YourFirstName-YourLastName-Assignment9.py to the BrightSpace Assignment 9 Dropbox.
• Submission Instructions (working with one classmate): Upload your solution, entitled YourFirstName-YourLastName-PartnerFirstName-PartnerLastName-Assignment9.py to the BrightSpace Assignment 9 Dropbox. Note: If you work with a partner, only one person needs to submit a solution. If you both submit a solution, the submission that will be graded is the one from the partner whose last name comes alphabetically first.
• Deadline Reminder: Once the submission deadline passes, BrightSpace will no longer accept your submission and you will no longer be able to earn credit. Thus, if you are not able to fully complete the assignment, submit whatever you have before the deadline so that partial credit can be earned.

Introduction

In this assignment, you will use your knowledge of Python strings to implement a simple word guess game. The game works as follows. First, the program identifies a random word from a list of possible lowercase words for the user to guess. Then, the user repeatedly guesses letters that might be in that word until either the user makes 6 errors or the user figures out the word.

In this sample transcript, the game is played three times. In each game in the transcript, the winning word is "rattata". (However, the winning word can be anything.) Notice that it doesn't matter whether the user enters lowercase or uppercase letters. Also notice that once the user guesses a letter successfully (for example, "R"), subsequent guesses of that same letter are counted as errors since no new information is gained.

Use assignment9.py, renamed according to the instructions above, as your starting point. Use the main function without modifying it. You are welcome to change the words that can be generated in the generate_word function.

Requirements and Grading - 100 points

• 15 points. The game works correctly when the user makes no errors. (All or nothing.)
• 15 points. The game works correctly when the user only makes errors. (All or nothing.)
• 15 points. The game works correctly when the user makes five errors, but solves the problem. (All or nothing.)
• 15 points. The game works correctly when the user figures out every letter in the word except one before making six errors. (All or nothing.)
• 15 points. The output format is matched exactly. (3 points per type of difference up to 10 points.)
• 10 points. Appropriate comments are included throughout the solution. (3 points per missing comment up to 10 points.)
• 15 points. The solution is easy to understand and of high quality. (5 points per type of improvement up to 15 points.)

Optional Challenge

Once your text-based solution works, also display the letters guessed and whatever is known about the word being guessed in a turtle graphics window. If your solution is largely correct and you do a good job with the optional challenge, you will automatically score 100 on this assignment.