[Tutor] Hands-on beginner's project?

[Steve Willoughby]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:38:56AM -0700, Chris Babcock wrote:
> room = 1
> while 1:

Also, it may be more clear to say "while True:" in preference
to "while 1:".  Note that in your earlier version you didn't
capitalize "True" which meant Python had no idea what that
value was (could be a variable or something).  True and False
(and None, for that matter) are all capitalized.

>   if room == 1:
>     # Room 1 stuff
>   elif room == 2:
>     # Room 2 stuff

This is a good start while you're learning to program initially.
You'll later want to see how to generalize this so the collection
of rooms and connections between them exists in _data_ instead
of _code_.  Something to simmer on the back burner until you're
ready for that step.


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