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ICS3U Case Study Digits

The document describes a program that plays a digit matching game. The program randomly generates a 2-digit number between 10-99 for the user to guess. It scores the user based on how many of their digits match the target number in the same position. The document provides the full Python code for the game and suggests some exercises to modify it, such as changing it to use 3-digit numbers or changing the scoring rules.

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ICS3U Case Study Digits

The document describes a program that plays a digit matching game. The program randomly generates a 2-digit number between 10-99 for the user to guess. It scores the user based on how many of their digits match the target number in the same position. The document provides the full Python code for the game and suggests some exercises to modify it, such as changing it to use 3-digit numbers or changing the scoring rules.

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ICS3U Case Study: Digit Match

Now that we are able to generate random values and to make decisions, we can implement a simple
game in which the user attempts to guess a two-digit number (10-99) randomly selected by the
computer. The player scores one point for each digit that is in the same position as the target value. For
example, if the target is 72 and the user enters 42, the user scores a point for one match (2).

The first thing to do is import the random module, so that we can generate a random value between
10 and 99. Once we have done this, we prompt the user to enter their own two-digit value.

import random
target = random.randint(10, 99)
print("I'm thinking of a two-digit number.")
print("Each digit that matches one of mine earns a point.")
user_num = int(input("Enter a two-digit positive number: "))

We can check whether the value falls between 10 and 99 by linking these two conditions using and,
like in the code below. If both of these conditions are True, then the if block will be evaluated with
code that we will write later. If the user enters a negative value, the elif block will be executed
instead. Finally, if all of the previous conditions are False, then the user will have entered either a
positive values less than 10, or a positive value greater than 99, which is outside of the accepted range.
The else statement will catch these cases.

if user_num >= 10 and user_num <= 99:


# CODE TO COMPARE TARGET AND USER'S NUMBER
elif user_num < 0:
print("That's not a positive number.")
else:
print("That's not two digits.")

If the user-entered value is between 10 and 99, then we need to do some analysis. First, we let the user
know what the secret number is, and initialize a variable that will record how many digits are correct.
This code, and all that follows, will replace the comment # CODE TO COMPARE ... above.

print("The number is ", target, ".", sep="")


correct = 0

Next, we need to check both the first and last digits of the number to see if there is a match. It is
possible that both digits match, only one digit (first or last) matches, or that no digits match. Obtaining
the last digit can be done by checking the remainder after the number is divided by 10. If they do, we
add 1 to correct to indicate a match.

if user_num % 10 == target % 10:


print("The last digits match.")
correct += 1

Similarly, we can obtain the first digit of the number by obtaining its quotient when divided by 10.

if user_num // 10 == target // 10:


print("The first digits match.")
correct += 1
If there was no match (signified by a value of 0 for correct), we display a message to the user. In all
cases (two matches, one match, or no matches), we display the number of matching digits.

if correct == 0:
print("Nothing matches.")
print("You scored", correct, "points.")

The complete program is below. You should try playing the game several times to verify that it handles
all cases with two matches, one match, and no matches.

import random
target = random.randint(10, 99)
print("I'm thinking of a two-digit number.")
print("Each digit that matches one of mine earns a point.")
user_num = int(input("Enter a two-digit positive number: "))
if user_num >= 10 and user_num <= 99:
print("The number is ", target, ".", sep="")
correct = 0
if user_num % 10 == target % 10:
print("The last digits match.")
correct += 1
if user_num // 10 == target // 10:
print("The first digits match.")
correct += 1
if correct == 0:
print("Nothing matches.")
print("You scored", correct, "points.")
elif user_num < 0:
print("That's not a positive number.")
else:
print("That's not two digits.")

It may be difficult to verify all cases due to the random nature of the program. Here are some ways in
which you might handle this:

• Temporarily overwrite the value of target after it has been randomly generated by assigning a
known value to it. This will allow you to specify the exact value you want to test.
• Insert a print statement with the value of target shortly after it is generated. Once testing is
complete, this line can be deleted or commented out. This preserves randomness but, since
values are random, it may require multiple runs before all cases can be verified.
• Use the debugger to monitor the value of target. This does not require the addition or
modification of any code. We will discuss how to use the debugger soon.

Exercises

• Modify the program so that it uses a three-digit number instead.


• Using your three-digit program, a player “wins” if two or more digits match and “loses” otherwise.
Modify the code so that it announces whether a player wins or loses.
• Using the original two-digit program, modify the code so that a digit matches if it is in any position.
For example, if the target number is 53 and the user enters 37, then there is one match (3). Watch
out for duplicates: there is only one match for 55 and 58.

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