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Hi

I am working on a simple wordgame exercise: 2 players form a word by
alternating turns saying a letter, which is added on to the end of the
word fragment.

I am familiar with loops, iterations etc but i need a hint as to how
to approach alternating turns when writing this code?

exercise source:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrica...ents/pset5.pdf

thanks
Baba

Baba wrote:
> I am working on a simple wordgame exercise: 2 players form a word by
> alternating turns saying a letter, which is added on to the end of the
> word fragment.
>
> I am familiar with loops, iterations etc but i need a hint as to how
> to approach alternating turns when writing this code?

One way (not tested):

thisplayer = Player()
otherplayer = Player()
while not_won:
thisplayer.take_turn()
thisplayer, otherplayer = otherplayer, thisplayer



Mel.

On Sep 21, 6:25 am, Baba <raoul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am working on a simple wordgame exercise: 2 players form a word by
> alternating turns saying a letter, which is added on to the end of the
> word fragment.
>
> I am familiar with loops, iterations etc but i need a hint as to how
> to approach alternating turns when writing this code?
>
> exercise source:http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrica...omputer-scienc...
>
> thanks
> Baba


Have a look at the SIMPL toolkit (http://www.icanprogram.com/06py/
lesson1/lesson1.html). This would allow your two players to be split
into two separate Python modules. It has the "advantage" that once
completed those two players could be deployed across a network,
likely without any code changes.

bob

On Sep 21, 1:39*pm, Mel <mwil...@the-wire.com> wrote:
> Baba wrote:
> > I am working on a simple wordgame exercise: 2 players form a word by
> > alternating turns saying a letter, which is added on to the end of the
> > word fragment.
>
> > I am familiar with loops, iterations etc but i need a hint as to how
> > to approach alternating turns when writing this code?
>
> One way (not tested):
>
> thisplayer = Player()
> otherplayer = Player()
> while not_won:
> * * thisplayer.take_turn()
> * * thisplayer, otherplayer = otherplayer, thisplayer
>
> * * * * Mel.


Hi Mel,

Thank you very much. Your suggestion works like a charm

def alternating_turns():
hand = []
thisPlayer = 'player1'
otherPlayer = 'player2'
while len(hand) < 3:
print 'turn %s: ' %(thisPlayer)
letter = raw_input('enter letter: ')
hand.append(letter)
thisPlayer, otherPlayer = otherPlayer, thisPlayer
print hand

alternating_turns()

thanks again! much appreciated. this was a first for me where i have
learned a practical way to apply mutation.

Baba