🐍 Python Learning Hub

Session 1: Guessing Game+ — loops, conditionals & functions

Everything for this session lives on this one page — play, learn, quiz, remember.

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Play a round, finish the quiz, then complete the solo challenge.

01 · PLAY IT

Guessing Game+

Learn the logic by feeling it first. Invalid input is free; a valid wrong guess costs one life.

7 lives
Score: 0 win(s) out of 0 round(s).
Press Enter or tap Guess.
02 · READ IT

Follow the Python

Tap a concept to highlight the exact lines that make it work.

Choose a concept above. Its lines will light up here.


      

    


    

      

        
03 · REVIEW IT
Code review — your turn
Predict the program before checking. That is how reading code becomes a skill.

      

      

        

          

            

              
1. The secret is 42. The player types abc, then 150, then 50. How many lives remain?

              

                
                
                
                
              

              
            

            

              
2. What does continue do on the out-of-range line?

              

                
                
                
                
              

              
            

            

              
3. Spot every bug in this variant:

              
while lives > 0:
    guess = int(input("Your guess: "))
    if guess == secret:
        print("Correct!")
    lives -= 1
    hint = "higher" if guess < secret else "lower"
    print(f"Nope - go {hint}!")

              

                
                
                
                
              

              
            

          

          

            
            
          

        

      

    


    

      

        
04 · REMEMBER IT
Five sticky concepts
Tap each card to flip it. Say the explanation out loud before you reveal the back.

      

      

    


    

      

        
05 · BUILD IT
Solo challenge: hot_cold.py
Write this one yourself. Borrow patterns, not whole answers.

      

      

        

          
Pick a secret number 1–20, give the player 5 tries. After each guess print Hot! if within 3 of the secret, else Cold!. Show a win message on a correct guess and reveal the number on a loss.

          
          

        

        

          
Three nudges

          
    
            
  • Use random.randint like the game above.
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  • abs(guess - secret) <= 3 means hot.
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  • Reuse the validation pattern: isdigit + continue.
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THE COMPLETE JOURNEY
Sessions 2–9
Open one session at a time. Each has a playable browser demo, a runnable Python lesson example based on that demo, a code-reading quiz, flashcards, and a solo build.

      

      

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CODE READING GYM
Train your code-reading eyes
Do not run the code first. Trace it line by line, predict the output, then check the walkthrough. That habit is how unfamiliar code stops feeling unfamiliar.

      

      

    


    

      

        
KEEP IT CLOSE
Python cheat sheet
A plain-English reminder of the ideas used across the journey. Read the tiny example, then look for the same shape in a project.

      

      

    


    

      

        
THE 9-SESSION ARC
Your Python roadmap
Sessions 2–9 are available in the interactive lessons above. Sessions 8–9 share one combined capstone.

      

      

        
SESSION 1YOU ARE HERE
Guessing Game+
Console · loops, conditionals, random

        
SESSION 2AVAILABLE
High-score keeper
Files · save/load scores; refactor into functions

        
SESSION 3AVAILABLE
Word counter
Dictionaries · analyze real text

        
SESSION 4AVAILABLE
File toolkit
Files · shout, reverse, stat-pack any text file

        
SESSION 5AVAILABLE
RPSLS arena
Complex data structures · nested dicts as game rules

        
SESSION 6AVAILABLE
Scrabble scorer
Advanced files · multi-file letter values

        
        
      

    


    
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