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Tackle creating the grid.
Accomplished in this Video
- Created the grid using 2 methods
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create_row- found all of the cards in the given row
- added either spaces or the word to the row to show which ones have been matched
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create_grid- created the header
- used the row method to create all 4 rows and print them out to the console
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We've created our instance attributes and
our set cards method.
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Next, let's tackle creating the grid.
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In order to create our grid,
I think creating the rows in their own
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separate method will help keep
things a bit cleaner and clear.
0:15
Create a method called create_row.
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We'll pass in the row number so
we know which row to create.
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For example, if one is passed in,
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then we will need to find all
the cards with one in their location.
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We'll need an empty list
where we can append
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either cards if they have been guessed or
empty spaces.
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Let's loop through the columns so we can
find the matching locations for this row.
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Now we'll need to loop through our cards
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to find the ones that
are located in this row.
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If card.location equals,
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The current column and
the row number, if they are,
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we need to check to see
if they've been matched.
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If card.matched, if so,
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then we need to append
the word to our row.
1:52
row.append, string of the card,
just to make sure the word gets appended.
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If not, then we need to append empty
spaces that are the same size as our word.
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So three spaces.
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One, two, three.
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This helps keep our grid nice and neat.
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Finally, we'll need to return the row.
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Let's test this out.
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You can see I've already called
the create_row method for
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each row that we have in our grid.
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And I also grabbed the first
few cards in our cards list and
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switch their matched attribute to true.
2:55
This way we can make sure we're also going
to see the words as they're matched.
2:59
Great, it's looking like a grid already.
3:12
Okay, so now let's jump into
our create grid method that
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we'll use our create row to
create the grid in the console.
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We can call it create_grid.
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Now, the first thing that needs
to get printed out is our header.
3:46
Let's create a template using comments
to show what this will look like.
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Okay, so we can use join to print
out our header with spaces and
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pipes in between each one.
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Now that we know what it should look like,
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we're going to use join
to put it all together.
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Going to start with the beginning.
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And we should have a space for
the row number.
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Our pipe and then two spaces.
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This is because our column names
are a single letter while our words
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are three letters. Then we're
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going to add all of our
columns using join, so
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we're gonna join with a double space,
space space, pipe, space space.
5:09
Again, this is because our
columns are single letter
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while the words are going
to be three letters.
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This will help keep it nice and
neat, .join(self.columns).
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And then, we need our ending pipe,
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plus space, space, pipe.
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Now since it's our header, and
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it's the beginning of our game grid,
we need to print it out.
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Let's scroll down to the bottom and
call the function.
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Great, that looks nice.
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Now it's time to create the rows,
we'll need to loop through a range,
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that will start at one and end at four.
6:15
We did this before,
up in the _init_ method.
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Now we can start our print row variable.
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This will be the row that will
be printed to our console.
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The row should start with our row number,
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A pipe, and then one space.
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Then we'll need to call our row method and
pass in the row we're currently on.
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Let's save that to
a variable called get_row.
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Now we can add to our print row by
joining all of our words or spaces,
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just like we did in the header above.
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Print_row +=.
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Then we'll need a space, pipe,
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space, .join, our get_row.
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And then finish it off with a space, pipe.
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Finally print out the row.
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Now we can run the file and see what
our grid looks like in the console.
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Great, that looks really nice.
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Test this out further by changing some
of the cards matched attribute, to true.
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Game.cards, first one
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.matched = True.
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I'm gonna copy this, paste, paste, paste.
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This will be, three, two, one, okay.
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Now when we run the file again,
I should see the words inside of our grid.
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Awesome.
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