midterm project : the STOP game

Your mission is to write a word guessing game which shows a progressive batch of text or an image of a STOP sign.

You may work in a group of 2-3 people, or on your own. You may ask the tutors for help as needed.

• The program chooses a secret seven letter word.
• The player (the person running the program) guesses one letter at a time.
• Correct guesses show where in the word that letter occurs.
• Ten incorrect guesses loses.
• Incorrect guesses display a "STOP" sign progressively, a little more for each wrong letter until the whole thing is seen.

I've posted a video demo of a version that I wrote. Here are a few examples of it in action : swifter, raccoon, grovels .

Yours does not need to look exactly like mine, but that's the concept.

You may use Zelle's graphics library to implement an interactive window with a drawing, if all of your team members have installed a version of python that allows that.

You can find a list of words online; google for example "unix word file".

You may divide up the work among yourself however you like - this is a team effort. (In, a discussion of that is most of Thursday's assingment.) Please do involve everyone on your team. Each of you should understand the whole program, regardless of which parts you contribute to.

You may ask other people including the tutors for hints and/or help; as I have said before, you must then explicitly put this into your submission as a source, as you would cite any book or online reference.

The due dates are

• Thu April 8 : describe how you're thinking about the task and dividing it into pieces.
• Thu April 15 : turn in a first draft, with as much as you can working.
• Thu April 22 : final version due including docs and a discussion.

Questions about anything? Ask.